Shahriar Afshar
| Shahriar S. Afshar | |
|---|---|
| Born | Shahriar Sadigh Afshar 1971 Iran |
| Residence | USA |
| Citizenship | Iranian-American |
| Fields | Physicist, Inventor[1] and Entrepreneur[2] |
| Institutions | Harvard University, Rowan University, IRIMS, Perimeter Institute, NASA |
| Known for | Afshar experiment, KOR-fx |
| Notable awards | Khwarizmi International Award 1989 [3], Popular Science Invention of the Year 2010 |
Shahriar Sadigh Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار ) (born 1971 [4]) is an Iranian-American physicist and a multiple award-winning inventor. He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004.[5] As of July 2004, Afshar is a Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rowan University.[6] His highest academic degree is B.S.[7] He is a member of the high IQ society Mensa International.
Afshar's experiment is an optical experiment, which is claimed to demonstrate a contradiction of the principle of complementarity in quantum mechanics.[8] As a result of the controversy surrounding claims made about the experiment, Afshar complained that he has been attacked over his religion and ethnicity.[9] These personal attacks drew a rebuke in a New Scientist editorial, which called them "extreme", and an "entirely wrong kind of conflict".[10]
More recently Afshar has been concentrating on his commercial interests, as President, CEO & CTO of Immerz Inc, a Cambridge MA startup, in the consumer electronics games field.[2] His award-winning invention KOR-fx is considered to be the next step towards full media immersion and in his interviews with CNN and Bloomberg TV, it has been called "4D technology", as a follow on to the recent success of 3D entertainment.
On November 18, 2009, on the eve of LHC's launch, Afshar announced a wager against LHC being able to find the Higgs Boson in a New Scientist commentary, and Popular Science award article offering instead his own theory on the origin of inertia first published in 1998 as a contribution to NASA's peer-reviewed Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program (BPP.)[4][5][11] In December 2009 Afshar warned of potential negative fallout after the failure of LHC to find the Higgs, and urged that alternatives to the particle be seriously considered ahead of the expected chaos.[12]
[edit] References and notes
- ^ [1]
- ^ a b [2][3]Professional Profile at LinkedIn
- ^ List of Khwarizmi International Award Winners (in Persian) stating that Shahriar Sadiq Afshar is awarded for "Construction of 65-mm telescope"
- ^ A great leap forward Independent, Wednesday, 6 October 2004
- ^ Afshar SS (2004). "Waving Copenhagen Good-bye: Were the founders of Quantum Mechanics wrong?". Harvard seminar announcement. http://tools.fas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/exporter.cgi?view=event_detail&id=10416384.
- ^ http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/528029/
- ^ ROWAN UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING, APRIL 27, 2005
- ^ Afshar SS, Flores E, McDonald KF, Knoesel E. (2007). "Paradox in wave-particle duality". Foundations of Physics 37 (2): 295–305. arXiv:quant-ph/0702188. Bibcode 2007FoPh...37..295A. doi:10.1007/s10701-006-9102-8.
- ^ Marcus Chown (2007). "Quantum rebel wins over doubters". New Scientist (2591): 13. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19325915.400-quantum-rebel-wins-over-doubters.html.
- ^ Marcus Chown (2007). "Editorial: Keep science fair, and keep it clean". New Scientist (2591): 2. http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19325913.600-editorial-keep-science-fair-and-keep-it-clean.html.
- ^ Shahriar S. Afshar (1999). "Non-machian, Lorentz-invariant inertia: The first step towards the theory of GravitoElectroMagnetism". AIP Conference Proceedings 458: 1033–1039. http://www.irims.org/pdf/Afshar-Inertia1.pdf.
- ^ Large Hadron Collider failure will leave science back in the 'wilderness' Interview in The Daily Telegraph
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Shahriar Afshar's website
- NPR interview NPR's Science Friday
- American Physical Society News (Profiles in Versatility Interview)
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