Thomas Görnitz

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Thomas Görnitz

Thomas Görnitz (born June 22, 1943 in Leipzig ) is a German physicist. Until 2009 he was Professor of Physics Education at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

In 1961, after winning the GDR Mathematics Olympiad, Görnitz was the first German to receive a bronze medal at an International Mathematics Olympiad . After graduating from school, Thomas Görnitz studied physics and mathematics at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate there in 1973 in mathematical physics (with a thesis on the subject of reducing representations of the Poincaré group ).

After he submitted an application to leave the GDR in 1976, he worked as a gravedigger.

In 1979 he moved to Munich. There, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker won him over to work at the Max Planck Institute for research into the living conditions of the scientific and technical world . A long-term collaboration on the physical and philosophical foundations of quantum physics and cosmology began .

From 1992 to 1994 he worked at the Institute for Mathematical Physics at the TU Braunschweig and from 1994 to 2009 as a professor for didactics of physics at the University of Frankfurt.

Until 2016 he was chairman of the board of knowledge and responsibility - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Gesellschaft e. V. has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Foundation since its establishment in 1994 and from 2002 to 2016 . From 1996 to 2009 he was a member of the Theology and Science Working Group and the Templeton Research Lectures Committee at the University of Frankfurt and is a member of the Philosophy Working Group of the German Physical Society .

He has been married to the veterinarian and psychologist Brigitte Görnitz since 1964 and has five children with her.

Awards

  • 2003: Michael and Biserka Baum Prize of the Frankfurt Association for Basic Physical Research and the Physics Department of the Goethe University in Frankfurt.
  • 2009: Theophrastus Science Prize Holistic Medicine (with Brigitte Görnitz).

research

The communication of modern physics and its understandable presentation is a focus of his work, for example for quantum mechanics.

In addition, he researches quantum theory, cosmology and their philosophical interpretation. In particular, Görnitz considers abstract, meaningless bits of quantum information to be the basis of physics. He calls them AQI bits and subsumes this hypothesis under the term protyposis , which he coined . He hopes to justify the structure of space and time , derive Einstein's equations of general relativity and the gauge groups U (1), SU (2) and SU (3) of the Standard Model. He also sees a connection between his theory and the nature of consciousness.

Parts of his theses are freely accessible online in the magazine Tattva Viveka , which is related to spirituality and the New Age .

reception

His ideas and theories have not found their way into established physics and brain research. There is no established theory of everything, and for most scientists there is no convincing evidence that quantum effects are relevant to the functioning of the mind.

Publications (selection)

  • Thomas Görnitz, Brigitte Görnitz: From quantum physics to consciousness - cosmos, spirit and matter, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016 , ISBN 978-3-662-49081-5
  • Thomas Görnitz: Carl Friedrich v. Weizsäcker - physicist, philosopher, visionary , publisher of the CFv Weizsäcker Foundation, Enger, 2012, ISBN 978-3-942711-01-2
  • Thomas Görnitz: Quantum Theory as Universal Theory of Structures - Essentially from Cosmos to Consciousness in: Advances in Quantum Theory; ISBN 978-953-51-0087-4 , Edited by: Ion I. Cotaescu, Publisher: InTech, February 2012 ( available online )
  • Thomas Görnitz, Brigitte Görnitz: The evolution of the spiritual; Quantum Physics - Consciousness - Religion. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-56717-3 .
  • Thomas Görnitz, Holger Lyre (ed.): Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker; The Structure of Physics. Springer Netherlands, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 1402052340 .
  • Thomas Görnitz, Brigitte Görnitz: The creative cosmos; Spirit and matter from quantum information. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 978-3-827-41368-0 .
  • Thomas Görnitz: Quanta are different; The hidden unity of the world. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 978-3-827-40571-5 .
  • Thomas Görnitz: Carl Friedrich v. Weizsäcker - a thinker on the threshold of the new millennium. Herder, Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-451-04125-1 .
  • Thomas Görnitz (Ed.): CF v. Weizsäcker: The stars are glowing gas balls and God is present. Herder, Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-451-04077-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMO statistics page
  2. ↑ Thomas Görnitz: Quanta are different; The hidden unity of the world. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 978-3-8274-0571-5 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Görnitz, Brigitte Görnitz: The creative cosmos; Spirit and matter from quantum information . Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 978-3-8274-1368-0 .
  4. ↑ Th. Görnitz: Deriving General Relativity from Considerations on Quantum Information . In: Advanced Science Letters . tape 4 , no. 2 , February 1, 2011, p. 577-585 , doi : 10.1166 / asl.2011.1243 ( ingentaconnect.com [accessed November 27, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Thomas Görnitz, Uwe Schomäcker: The Structures of Interactions: How to Explain the Gauge Groups U (1), SU (2) and SU (3) . In: Foundations of Science . November 24, 2016, ISSN  1233-1821 , p. 1–23 , doi : 10.1007 / s10699-016-9507-6 ( springer.com [accessed November 25, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Thomas Görnitz, Uwe Schomäcker: Quantum Particles From Quantum Information . In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series . 2012, doi : 10.1088 / 1742-6596 / 380/1/012025 ( iop.org ).
  7. ↑ Thomas Görnitz, Brigitte Görnitz: From quantum physics to consciousness - cosmos, spirit and matter . Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-49082-2 , p. XIX, 839 .
  8. ↑ Thomas Görnitz: Quantum Theory and the Nature of Consciousness . In: Foundations of Science . June 22, 2017, ISSN  1233-1821 , p. 1–36 , doi : 10.1007 / s10699-017-9536-9 ( springer.com [accessed June 27, 2017]).
  9. ↑ For example: B. Görnitz and T. Görnitz: "Light, Life and Consciousness" , Tattva Viveka Volume 49, 2011
  10. ↑ The mind blows where it wants A review of the book "The Evolution of the Spiritual", Spectrum of Science, 2009.
  11. ↑ M. Tegmark : Importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes. In: Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. Volume 61, Number 4 Pt B, April 2000, pp. 4194-4206, PMID 11088215 .
personal data
SURNAME Görnitz, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig