Shahriar Afshar
Shahriar S. Afshar | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 |
| Citizenship | Iranian-American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University[3] |
| Known for | Afshar experiment |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist, Inventor[1] and Entrepreneur[2] |
| Institutions | Harvard University, Rowan University, IRIMS, Perimeter Institute |
Shahriar S. Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار) (born 1971 [4]) is an Iranian-American physicist and an 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].
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 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]
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, offering instead his proposed theory on the origin of inertia delineated in a 1999 paper.[11]
References and notes
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- ^ a b [2][3]Professional Profile at LinkedIn
- ^ Professional Profile at LinkedIn
- ^ A great leap forward Independent, Wednesday, 6 October 2004
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Afshar SS (2004). "Waving Copenhagen Good-bye: Were the founders of Quantum Mechanics wrong?". Harvard seminar announcement.
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- ^ ROWAN UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING, APRIL 27, 2005
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Afshar SS, Flores E, McDonald KF, Knoesel E. (2007). "Paradox in wave-particle duality". Foundations of Physics. 37 (2): 295–305.
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Marcus Chown (2007). "Quantum rebel wins over doubters". New Scientist (2591): 13.
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Marcus Chown (2007). "Editorial: Keep science fair, and keep it clean". New Scientist (2591): 2.
{{cite journal}}: External link in|title= - ^ Shahriar S. Afshar (1999). "Non-machian, Lorentz-invariant inertia: The first step towards the theory of GravitoElectroMagnetism". AIP Conference Proceedings. 458: 1033–1039.
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