Alexander Unzicker

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Alexander Gerhard Unzicker (born March 13, 1965 in Munich ) is a German physicist and non-fiction author.

Life

Unzicker studied physics and law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1985 and obtained a diploma in physics and the state examination in law in 1993. In 2001 he received his doctorate in neuroscience at the Institute for Medical Psychology at LMU Munich . He works as a high school teacher in Munich and is the father of three children.

Unzicker is the son of the chess grandmaster Wolfgang Unzicker . Between 1983 and 1987 he was registered as a substitute in the Bundesliga chess league for the Munich SC 1836 team, and he was used once in the 1983/84 season .

author

In From the Big Bang to the Through Bang , he criticizes string theory , which lacks experimental verifiability. In 2010, the book was named Science Book of the Year by the popular science magazine Bild der Wissenschaft in the category of explosives . Florian Freistetter criticized that the book was “far from being a reasonable criticism of modern physics. In 'From the Big Bang to the Crazy Bang' there is grumbling, grumbling and grumbling; physical descriptions alternate with personal attacks on scientists and the "criticism" of string theory is so exaggerated that, with the best will in the world, it can no longer be taken seriously. "

In his book On the Wrong Path through the Universe , he mainly opposes the standard models of physics with the argument that they are no longer credible due to excessive speculation and free parameters (“it can be adjusted well with many adjusting screws”). In particular, modern large-scale experiments lack transparency.

At the same time as the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded , Unzicker doubted in his self- published book The Higgs Fake in 2013 that the data measured at CERN was actually the Higgs particle he was looking for.

Since 2013 he has published articles critical of science in Telepolis magazine .

Publications

  • Psychophysics and formal description of visual classification services. Dissertation. Munich 2001.
  • From big bang to bang. The absurd hunt for the universal formula. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-04836-4 .
  • On the wrong track through the universe. Why the physics got lost. Hanser, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-43214-7 .
    • with Sheilla Jones: Bankrupting Physics. How Today's Top Scientists are Gambling Away Their Credibility. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, ISBN 978-1-137-27823-4 (English edition).
  • The Higgs fake. How Particle Physicists Fooled the Nobel Committee. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4921-7624-4 .
  • Einstein's lost key. Why we overlooked the best idea of ​​the 20th century. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (self-published), 2015, ISBN 978-1-5170-4545-6 .
  • When you know where the mind is, the day has structure. Instructions for thinking for yourself in crazy times. Westend Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-86489-244-8 .
  • The mathematical reality. Why space and time are an illusion. Self-published, 2019, ISBN 978-1-713-25616-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Failed: From Big Bang to Crazy Bang. September 10, 2010, accessed on November 25, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ Review by Wolfgang Steinicke: Irrlichtern in der Welten der Physik. Spektrum.de , November 29, 2012.
  3. ↑ Alexander Unzicker at Telepolis
personal data
SURNAME Unzicker, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Unzicker, Alexander Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich