Moshe Carmeli

Moshe Carmeli (born June 15, 1933 in Baghdad , † September 27, 2007 in Be'er Scheva ) was an Israeli theoretical physicist.

Life

Carmeli attended school in Baghdad and came to Israel in 1950. He served in the Israeli Air Force and studied physics at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem with a master's degree in 1960. He turned to general relativity and received his doctorate in 1964 with Nathan Rosen at the Technion . As a post-doctoral student , he was then at Lehigh University (1964/65), Temple University and from 1965 at the University of Maryland . 1967/68 he was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland and at the same time was a scientist for the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from 1967 to 1972 , from 1969 as a senior scientist. In 1972 he went back to Israel as an Associate Professor at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev , where he became a professor in 1974 and headed the physics faculty until 1977. In 1979 he became Albert Einstein Professor of Theoretical Physics there .

Among other things, he was visiting professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (1977/78, 1981), at the University of Maryland (1985/86), at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich (1980), at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste and at the University of Victoria (2004).

In 1969 and 1972 he received the US Air Force Outstanding Achievement Award. From 1979 to 1982 he was Vice President and 1982 to 1985 President of the Israel Physical Society. He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1972) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1977) and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences (1980).

He had been married to Elisheva Cohen since 1961, with whom he had three children.

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He dealt in particular with group theoretic analysis of general relativity and gauge field theories (also with the formulation of general relativity as SL (2, C) gauge field theory) and wrote several monographs on this topic.

He advocated a cosmological theory that was an alternative to the Big Bang , which he called cosmological relativity . It has a five-dimensional cosmological model with the expansion speed as the fifth variable next to space and time according to a metric in the special-relativistic version of the theory:

${\displaystyle ds^{2}=\tau dv^{2}+cdt^{2}-(dx^{2}+dy^{2}+dz^{2})}$ (with the age of the universe as the inverse of the Hubble constant) ${\displaystyle \tau ={\frac {1}{H_{0}}}}$

Fonts

• Group theory and general relativity: Representations of the Lorentz group and their applications to the gravitational field , McGraw Hill 1977, World Scientific 2000
• with Shimon Malin Representations of the Rotation and Lorentz groups: an introduction , Marcel Dekker 1976
• Classical Fields: General Relativity and Gauge Theory , Wiley 1982
• Statistical theory and random matrices , Marcel Dekker 1983
• with Kh. Huleihil, E. Leibowitz Gauge Fields. Classification and Equations of Motion , World Scientific 1989
• with E. Leibowitz, N. Nissani Gravitation: SL (2, C) gauge theory and conservation laws , World Scientific 1990
• with Shimon Malin Theory of spinors. An introduction , World Scientific 2006
• Cosmological special relativity: The large scale structure of space, time and velocity , World Scientific, 1997, 2nd edition 2002
• Cosmological relativity: The special and general theories of the structure of the universe , World Scientific 2006
• Editor with Louis Witten , Stuart Fickler Relativity , Plenum Press 1970 (Relativity Conference in the Midwest 1969)

Web links

• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Moshe Carmeli. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ^ Carmeli Aspects of cosmological relativity , International J. Theor. Phys., Volume 38, 1999
3. ↑ Carmeli Accelerating Universe: Theory vs. Experiment , preprint 2002
4. ↑ Carmeli Five dimensional brane world theory , Appendix to Carmeli Cosmological Special Relativity 2002 (PDF; 217 kB)
5. ↑ Carmeli Accelerating Universe, Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy , Preprint 2001