NOVA: Where does your fascination with physics comes from?
Jim Gates: When I was eight years old, my father bought a set of Encyclopedia Britannica. I was bored one day so I started opening the books, and I came across Schroedinger's equation, which is one of the foundations of modern physics. It was like walking on a beach and finding a marvelous shell and being fascinated by it. I thought to myself, "Gee, one day I wonder if I could ever understand that."
Earlier I had found out that stars were not just things you could look at but places you could go. I had the sense that science and technology were the ways that you got there, so there was this resonance with science and technology and mathematics.
Strangely his situation is similar to mine!
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