User:Tomperalta

TOM PERALTA
Borned in The Dominican Republic, San Fco. De Macorís, Sección Dichoso. In his early years Thomas Peralta was exposed to nature. The small town where he was raised was limited in resources but it had a school, church and three groceries stores. He was exposed to nature which enable him to see the sky at night full of stars, the moon, the different faces of the moon and shooting stars etc. As a child when he saw his first shooting star he thought that stars could fall and travel from one extreme to the other like lighting. That was impressive to him. Not knowing at that early age that shooting stars are comets passing nearby and they look like big stars. Moreover, his exposure to nature awaken his curiosity on how the universe works. At that time, he had no previous knowledge of what was known about the universe. He had no influence what so ever about the known universe; it was just his curiosity. Later on, in his life he moved to the town of San Fco. De Macoris where he finished his elementary education and his first year in high school. He experienced a different atmosphere that of a urban lifestyle in a more developed town; compare that with the more rural lifestyle in Sección Dichoso. Then he moved to NYC the capital of the world where he finished high school. He spent four years in high school. He spent an extra year in high school due to his academic advisors not scheduling the right classes before his senior year. However, he took advantage of that extra year in high school and improved his English skills. When he finally applied for college he took the entrance English test and got a high mark. He was told that he performed better in that test than what most teachers would as a result he could not be considered and ESL student. He would then take main stream classes. He felt complemented and at a disadvantaged. He would now have to work harder as he would be on a tougher path. Considering his exposure to English was only 3 years and 8 months and previous to that none at all in his home country The Dominican Republic. He started computer science at Lehman College. His first year he struggled but felt that he was getting a hand at it. Later on, his second, third and senior year he improved over that span and graduated with a decent GPA over 3.0. He completed his internship in the Department of Defense, The Pentagon in the IT field. There he got exposed to various technologies, government office, The Capitol and D.C. area monuments such as the white house. He remembers once his computer science professor said to him in the hallway “Everything is discovered in science”. Maybe she saw some potential in him and wanted to kill it. However, he didn’t argue with her because he knew he was at a disadvantage. She was a senior professor and he only a student in his junior year in college. He didn’t argue but thought about it for a long time. He said well guess what previously in 2000 he read time magazine millennium and Prof. Enstein was the scientist of the century. Back then he learned a bit about general relativity. It interested him that general relativity couldn’t be proven. In a sense if it can’t be proven probably it’s not finished. Those ideas invaded his mind; he thought that maybe in his quest one day he could complete general relativity. When in college he linked that with what the teacher said “Everything is discovered in science” he knew that was not true because general relativity was not proven. At that time, he was very immature to attempt to finish general relativity. Therefore, he devoted himself to science working hard. He purposely made himself miserable in college. He thought that feeling miserable would give him motivation to work hard on the unknown science. He struggled in a girlfriend relationship. He made himself believe that a girlfriend was highly unattainable for him and he needed to prove general relativity before he was allowed to get a girl. But that was a big task. Before graduating college, he had a nervous breakdown. When he got better he finished his last semester and graduated in Fall 2003. After graduation, he took some time off from academia and in 2006 was a math high school teacher. He tried to teach a constructive approach to the students. Teaching was too stressful for him so he quit in his second semester. After that he had different jobs in 2009 he was working as a field tech. In 2010 the year he completed the theory of general relativity he was still working for the same company. It came to his mind that he wanted to discover something but he didn’t know what it would be. He started adding fractions to brainstorm his ideas. Then he realized he was going nowhere that way. So, he researched about general relativity hoping he would find something relevant online. he found some useful information, started playing with it and came up with the completed theory of general relativity. The key was acknowledging the relationship between mass and light and writing the whole equation in terms of those two variables (E = Mc^2 + c^3 + Mc + c^2 + M + c). He is currently working on writing a book, recording and album, filming a movie and developing an app.