Now, he is applying his knowledge from physics to his politics.

"Apart from having some technical savvy based upon my Harvard graduate education, the very fact that I'm a quantum physicist means that my expertise is natural law, the government of nature and how nature governs this immensely complex universe without problems," he says.

" I therefore am running for president as a scientist to put our government back on firm principles of knowledge and proven solutions."

Hagelin on the Issues

While he professes a more scientific world-view than the other candidates, Hagelin's platform resembles the original appeal of the Reform Party which attacked governmental bureaucracy and special interests.

He supports school vouchers (he favors experimentation) and campaign finance reform. He advocates public funding and the banning of political action committees (PACs) and soft money, an issue that affected his own campaign.

"We don't have the money to run high profile ads; that's a major setback," Hagelin says. "But we have built now the largest, strongest grassroots infrastructure of volunteers and candidates and organizers in the history of third party politics."

He also says the country could be self-sufficient with energy if it were not "addicted" to foreign oil interests and "held hostage by OPEC and oil barons." He says he believes the mainstream candidates are "marinated in oil."