Jack Sarfatti

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Jack Sarfatti in November, 2007

Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American theoretical physicist and author of popular works on quantum physics and consciousness . He is known for his iconoclastic ideas and shows great interest in what he sees as the current breakdown of the paradigm that separates the natural sciences and the humanities . One of his arguments is that physics , which he called the Conceptual Art of the late 20th Centurycalls, which has replaced philosophy as the unifying link between science and art .

Sarfatti's main interest, however, is SMI²LE , i.e. the colonization of the universe , the increase of our intelligence and the extension of life. His views include speculation about the fact that UFOs possibly of extraterrestrial origin or terrestrial time travelers from our own future might be; that parapsychological phenomena are real; that communication with superluminal might be possible; and that the long distances of space travel could be covered by deforming space-time .

He is a Usenet legend and also has his own website where he discusses his ideas.

His views are not accepted by most of the scientific community.

Academic background

Sarfatti was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was the son of Hyman Sarfatti, a Sephardi Jew originally from Macedonia , and his wife Mildred Sarfatti.

After graduating from high school in Flatbush in 1956, he studied physics at Cornell University , where he heard from Nobel Prize laureates Hans Bethe and Philip Morrison and made his bachelor's degree in 1960. His first published work, Quantum-Mechanical Correlation Theory of Electromagnetic Fields , appeared in the Italian journal Nuovo Cimento in 1963 .

In 1967 he received his Masters Degree (Diploma) in Physics from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) University of California, San Diego . In the same year the article The Goldstone Theorem in the Jahn-Teller Effect , co-authored with Marshal Stoneham , was published in the journal Proceedings of the Physical Society of London and the article Laser Self-Focusing Analogue to the Landau-Ginzburg Equation of Type II Superconductivity .

Jack Sarfatti (left) and Fred Alan Wolf in Paris 1973

From 1967 to 1971 he taught physics at San Diego State University (where Fred Alan Wolf was his colleague) and received his doctorate in 1969 from Fred Cummings at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), whom he knew from a summer job at Ford Aeronutronics in 1963. In 1970 he published Cummings Beyond the Hartree-Fock Theory in Superfluid Helium in the journal "Physica Scripta".

1971–1972 he worked for David Bohm , known among other things for his investigations into the theory of hidden variables in quantum theory, at Birkbeck College in London .

1973–1974 he worked for the Nobel Prize winner Abdus Salam in his International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste . He was also a visiting professor at the mathematics institute in UNICAMP in Brazil for a year.

In 1974 he founded the Physics-Consciousness Research Group and held regular courses and workshops at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur . From 1999-2000 he was with Joe Firmage's "ISSO exotic propulsion group" with a budget of several million US dollars .

Sarfatti and Uri Geller

On June 21, 1974, Sarfatti was involved with other scientists and other interested groups in observations dealing with Uri Geller .

Sarfatti was extremely impressed by Geller and commented on the events as follows: “My personal professional judgment, as a physicist and doctor of philosophy, is that Geller actually demonstrated reproducible psychoenergetic abilities under relatively well-controlled conditions that are beyond reproach. "

However, later, after discussing the events with James Randi , he revised his statements. In a letter he wrote: "On the basis of further experience in the field of conjuring, I would like to withdraw my confirmation of Uri Geller's psychoenergetic abilities."

About aliens

In 1975 Sarfatti stated in a letter to James Randi that he had "serious information about contacts by extraterrestrial beings". In the same year he published the book “Space-time and Beyond” together with two other authors in which he claimed that paraphysical events could be explained by “non-local quantum connections”.

About the speed of light

In 1978 Sarfatti patented a communication system that works faster than light . Martin Gardner commented: “I don't know any other physicist who thinks this system works. If it works, Jack Sarfatti would be one of the greatest physicists of all time ”. Sarfatti withdrew his support for this draft, stating that it would not work because it was based on an orthodox quantum theory that included the "no-cloning" theorem .

criticism

In a seminar held at the University of Campinas , the Brazilian mathematics professor Waldyr Rodrigues deals with the concepts and methods of Sarfatti. In A Comment on Emergent Gravity , edited by him , Rodrigues pointed to mathematical incompatibilities found in Sarfatti's Emergent Gravity: String Theory without String Theory and called it a "potpurri of nonsense mathematics" and he also found it in Sarfatti's later publications Error.

Publications

Written publications

  • 2006, "Emergent Gravity: String Theory Without String Theory" , ArXiv.org e-print archive.
  • 2005, Super Cosmos , AuthorHouse. ISBN 1-4184-7662-5
  • 2004, "Einstein Gravity with Dark Energy and Dark Matter as Sakharov Metric Elasticity", GR17 Dublin 2004: 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation: Book of Abstracts , p. 181 ( abstract ( memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) ).
  • 2004, "Wheeler's World" ( Memento of May 29, 2004 on the Internet Archive ), Developments in Quantum Physics , NOVA Scientific Publishers, pp. 41-84. ISBN 1-59454-003-9
  • 2003, "Macro-Quantum Origin of Gravity and Quintessence", Papers at APS Austin & Philadelphia published in APS Abstracts for those meetings. Bulletin of the American Physical Society , Vol 48, No 1, Part II, N35-6, p. 832 ( abstract ).
  • 2002, Space-Time and Beyond 2: Dark Energy , AuthorHouse. ISBN 1-4033-9022-3
  • 2002, Destiny Matrix , AuthorHouse. ISBN 0-7596-9689-6
  • 2002, Progress in Post-Quantum Physics and Unified Field Theory , Gravitation and Cosmology. From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale (Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, Vol. 126), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 419-430. ISBN 1-4020-0885-6 , bibcode : 2002gchr.conf..419S
  • 1998, with MC Levit, Are the Bader Laplacian and the Bohm Quantum Potential Equivalent? , Causality & Locality in Modern Physics (Series: Fundamental Theories in Physics, Vol 97), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 353-358. ISBN 0-7923-5227-0 , arxiv : physics / 9704029
  • 1998, Beyond Bohm-Vigier Quantum Mechanics ( Memento of October 12, 1999 in the Internet Archive ), Causality & Locality in Modern Physics , (Series: Fundamental Theories in Physics, Vol 97), Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 403-410. ISBN 0-7923-5227-0
  • 1991, Design for a Superluminal Signaling Device . In: Physics Essays . tape 4 , no. 3 , 1991, pp. 315-336 ( philpapers.org ).
  • 1977, "Higher Intelligence is Us in the Future," in Spit in the Ocean , Fall 1977, no. 3, Ken Kesey , pub., Tim Leary , ed.
  • 1975, "The Physical Roots of Consciousness," in Mishlove, Jeffrey , The Roots of Consciousness , pp. 279-290. ISBN 0-394-73115-8
  • 1975, Space-Time and Beyond , with Fred Alan Wolf and Bob Toben , EP Dutton. ISBN 0-525-47399-8
  • 1974, "The Dirac Equation and General Relativity," Foundations of Physics .
  • 1973, "Regge Trajectories as Rotation Black Holes in Strong Gravity", Collective Phenomena , H. Frohlich & FW Cummings , eds.
  • 1971, "On mini black holes", short note in Nature Physical Science .
  • 1970, “Beyond the Hartree-Fock Theory in Superfluid Helium,” with Fred Cummings, in Physica Scripta (Switzerland).
  • 1969, Destruction of Superflow in Unsaturated 4He Films and the Prediction of a New Crystalline Phase of 4He with Bose-Einstein Condensation , Physics Letters , Vol 30A, No 5, Nov 1969, pp 300-301. bibcode : 1969PhLA ... 30..300S
  • 1967, "Laser Self-Focusing Analogue to the Landau-Ginzburg Equation of Type II Superconductivity", Physics Letters .
  • 1967, "The Goldstone Theorem in the Jahn-Teller Effect", with Marshall Stoneham, Proceedings of the Physical Society of London , cited as a major paper in AIP Resource Letter on Symmetry in Physics , 1980 (done at United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment , Harwell, Didcot, Berks).
  • 1963 Quantum-Mechanical Correlation Theory of Electromagnetic Fields . In: Nuovo Cimento . tape 27 , no. 5 , 1963, pp. 1119-1129 , doi : 10.1007 / BF02813089 .

Other media

  • Sarfatti appeared in numerous television programs on American learning and knowledge channels and was interviewed regularly by the American IPODCAST radio network.
  • On the Star Trek IV DVD released by Paramount Pictures there is an 11 minute and 14 second bonus track regarding Time Travel: The Art of the Possible . Three prominent quantum physicists including Nick Herbert , Fred Alan Wolf, and Jack Sarfatti speak on this bonus track.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b disinfo.com - online news portal ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b c SFGate , San Francisco Chronicle
  3. ↑ a b UFOS AND THE NEW PHYSICS by Kim Burrafato in conversation with Jack Sarfatti, Ph.D. ( Memento from September 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ David DeLaney: Net.Legends.FAQ (Noticeable Phenomena Of UseNet). Retrieved April 21, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Internet Science Education Project (ISEP)
  6. ↑ The Doctrine of the Supremacy of the Soul ( Memento of May 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Re: Ann Coulter's Betrayal of the Anti-Communist Historians ( Memento from February 25, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ "My Story" by Hyman Sarfatti ( Memento from December 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf)
  9. ↑ SUNDAY INTERVIEW - The Universe, As Seen From North Beach ( Memento from November 2, 2000 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Science News , vol. 106, July 20, 1974, p. 46.
  11. ^ Science News , December 6, 1975, p. 355.
  12. ↑ (U.S. Patent No. 071165, May 12, 1978) The Illuminati Papers, Robert Anton Wilson , 1981, p. 144
  13. ^ "Magic and Paraphysics", Chapter 8, Science, Good, Bad and Bogus, 1981, p. 111
  14. ↑ Jack Sarfatti: Emergent Gravity and Torsion: String Theory Without String Theory, Why the Cosmic Dark Energy Is So Small . February 7, 2006, arxiv : gr-qc / 0602022 .
  15. ^ Waldyr A. Rodrigues Jr .: A Comment on Emergent Gravity . February 27, 2006, arxiv : gr-qc / 0602111 .
personal data
SURNAME Sarfatti, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theoretical physicist and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York