Wolfgang, have you by any chance read The Holographic Universe?And... thois phrase of yours jumped out at me: both as a job and from loving to do it...
It just made me curious about the "loving to do it" part... can you say more please? It was how you said loving "to DO it," not just loving "IT"... I dunno, I suspect there is something really interesting there.
My theory is that there is no substitute for really getting to know another human being, but I also love statistics, for what they can tell us from one view.
~S~