Thad Roberts is the cre­ator (dis­cov­erer?) of this intu­itively acces­si­ble eleven dimen­sional geom­e­try. He is cur­rently a grad­u­ate stu­dent at the University of Utah pur­su­ing an advanced degree astro­physics. His high per­for­mance pilot’s license and his res­cue SCUBA diver’s license reflect his affin­ity for explor­ing unfa­mil­iar realms and seek­ing out valu­able glimpses that have the poten­tial to shed some light on Nature’s hid­den struc­ture. He has been dropped down a mine shaft in Peru, dis­cov­ered a Tyrannosaurid tooth in the Utah deserts, skin­dived off the shores of Hawaii, mined for rare gem stones, expe­ri­enced zero grav­ity, extreme iso­la­tion, and on and on.

When he was 22, Thad was hired by NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas as an Astrophysicist. From this posi­tion he went to Astrogeophysics and then even­tu­ally to Flight Lead in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory where he helped train the astro­nauts for their EVAs (space walks), and par­tic­i­pated in under­wa­ter stud­ies of the International Space Station mock-ups. At age 25, Thad mas­ter­minded the infa­mous moon rock caper and made off with lunar sam­ples that NASA had labeled “trash” after con­t­a­m­i­nat­ing them with their sci­en­tific tests. 33 years to the day after Neil Armstrong first picked up a piece of the moon, Thad was sell­ing a few pieces for 2 mil­lion dol­lars in what ended up as an over­played sting by an embar­rassed government.

Thad was handed 100 months in fed­eral prison for his out-of-the-box think­ing (some­thing not all that rare at NASA). Prison gave him time to focus his ener­gies on the hid­den struc­ture of Nature and to wres­tle with the mys­ter­ies that plague mod­ern physics. qst was the result. Though there were things that Thad wouldn’t repeat, he says that he doesn’t regret how things turned out. Despite the iso­la­tion and the lone­li­ness that defined those years, Thad notes that with­out that time of intense ded­i­ca­tion and con­stant focus he may have never been lead to the dis­cov­er­ies he has made. It all cul­mi­nated with an insight that enabled him to com­pletely rewrite the geom­e­try of phys­i­cal real­ity. How sim­ply this new geom­e­try all fits together is amaz­ing and inspir­ing — and it all ties into an adven­tur­ous life (which his list of things done and things to do exem­plify). This new vision, this higher-dimensional geom­e­try, invites us all to see life for the adven­ture that it is. It invites us to finally con­nect with the hid­den struc­ture of Nature.

(More pho­tos can be found in the gal­leries sec­tion.)