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Not to be confused with Jonathan Sarfati.

Jack Sarfatti
Sarfatti in November 2007
Born (1939-09-14) September 14, 1939 (age 85)[1]
Brooklyn, New York
EducationCornell University
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Riverside
Websitestardrive.org

Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist. Working largely outside academia, most of Sarfatti's publications revolve around quantum physics and consciousness.

Sarfatti was a leading member of the Fundamental Fysiks Group, an informal group of physicists in California in the 1970s who, according to historian of science David Kaiser, aimed to inspire some of the investigations into quantum physics that underlie parts of quantum information science.[2][3] Sarfatti co-wrote Space-Time and Beyond (1975; credited to Bob Toben and Fred Alan Wolf) and has self-published several books.[4]

Background

Education

Sarfatti was born in Brooklyn, New York to Hyman and Millie Sarfatti and raised in the Midwood.[5] His father was born in Kastoria, Greece, and moved to New York as a child with his family.[6]

After graduating from Midwood High School in 1956, Sarfatti attended Cornell University and received a B.A in physics in 1960, followed by graduate studies at Cornell and Brandeis University.[7] He obtained an M.S. in 1967 from the University of California, San Diego and a Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of California, Riverside under Fred Cummings, both in physics; his dissertation was "Gauge Invariance in the Theory of Superfluidity."[8]

Academic career

From 1967 to 1971, Sarfatti was an assistant professor of physics at San Diego State University. He also studied at the Cornell Space Science Center, the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment, the Max Planck Institute for Physics, and International Centre for Theoretical Physics.[7][9]Then he decided to leave academia around the time when he was in Trieste.

Politics

According to Kaiser, Sarfatti's politics have leaned to the right since the early 1980s, when he became dependent on a cadre of "politically conservative thinkers who were drawn to certain New Age ideas" for research funding following the dissolution of his relationship with Werner Erhard. He is critical of Cultural Marxism and perceives the majority of faculty at American universities as constituting "the enemy within."[10]

Others

Sarfatti has been involved in Fundamental Fysiks Group, Physics–Consciousness Research Group, Caffe Trieste, 100 Year Starship and some other research projects.[11][12][13][14][15][3][7][16]

Selected works

  • Toben, Bob (1975). Space-Time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation of the Unexplainable. E.P. Dutton (Toben in conversation with Fred Alan Wolf and Jack Sarfatti). ISBN 978-0-525-47399-2

References

  1. ^ Stephen Schwartz, "The Universe, As Seen From North Beach", San Francisco Chronicle, August 17, 1997, p. 5.
  2. ^ Kaiser 2011, p. xxiiiff; David Kaiser, "Lecture: How the Hippies Saved Physics", WGBH PBS, April 28, 2010 (hereafter Kaiser 2010), from 04:00 mins, particularly from 11:00 mins.

    Hugh Gusterson, "Physics: Quantum outsiders", Nature, 476, 278–279, August 18, 2011.

  3. ^ a b George Johnson, "What Physics Owes the Counterculture", The New York Times, June 17, 2011.
  4. ^ For Sarfatti's authorship of Space-Time and Beyond, Kaiser 2011, p. 136; Rosen 1994, p.  141; also see Kaiser 2010, from 23:22 mins.
  5. ^ Technology Review, Association of Alumni and Alumnae of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976, p. 1; Jack Sarfatti, Destiny Matrix. AuthorHouse, 2002, p. 93.
  6. ^ Hyman Sarfatti, "My Story: Cosmic Consciousness & Me", Scientific GOD Journal, 5(8), October 2014 (pp. 660–682), pp. 660, 664.
  7. ^ a b c Alex Burns, "Jack Sarfatti: Weird Science", 21C magazine, 1996.
  8. ^ For the MS, Schwartz 1997, p. 5; for the PhD, Jack Sarfatt[i], "Gauge Invariance in the Theory of Superfluidity", The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System.
  9. ^ "If the beer don't get you, then the black holes must," New Scientist, October 18, 1973, p. 165.
  10. ^ Kaiser 2011, p. 63.
  11. ^ H. M. Collins and T. J. Pinch, Frames of Meaning: The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science, Routledge, 2013, p. 189, n. 4.
  12. ^ Kaiser 2010, from 24:00 mins.
  13. ^ "25th reunion of the Fundamental Physics Group", quantumtantra.com.
  14. ^ Kaiser 2011, pp. 15, 298, n. 18.
  15. ^ Kaiser 2010, from 28:00 mins.
  16. ^ "About", "100 Year Starship Study™ Public Symposium", 100yearstarshipstudy.com.

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