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Jack Sarfatti
Jack Sarfatti in November 2007
Born (1939-09-14) September 14, 1939 (age 85)
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materCornell (BA), University of California, San Diego (MS) & Riverside (PhD)
Known forcontroversial work on quantum physics, cosmology and consciousness
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsSan Diego State University, 1967-71 (assistant professor)
Doctoral advisorFred Cummings
Other academic advisorsHans Bethe, Phillip Morrison

Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American usenet celebrity[1] who was trained as a theoretical physicist. He is known for his iconoclastic ideas, and is interested in what he sees as the breakdown of the paradigm that posits science and the humanities as separate disciplines, arguing that physics [2] has replaced philosophy as the unifying force between science and art.[3].

Early life and academic background

Sarfatti was born in Brooklyn, New York to Hyman Sarfatti, an Italian Sephardi mystic[4] from Macedonia and his wife Mildred.[5] He received a B.A (1960; Cornell) and a Master's (1967; UCSD) degree in physics. While working as an assistant professor at San Diego State University (1967-71), Sarfatti obtained a Ph.D (1969) from University of California, Riverside[6] under the supervision of Fred Cummings. In 1975, Sarfatti left academia and founded the Physics Consciousness Research Group to do research on parapsychological phenomenon such as telepathy.

Written works

  • "Higher Intelligence is Us in the Future" (1977), in Spit in the Ocean, Fall 1977, No. 3, Ken Kesey, pub., Tim Leary, ed.
  • "The Physical Roots of Consciousness" (1975) in Mishlove, Jeffrey, The Roots of Consciousness, pp 279–290. ISBN 0-394-73115-8
  • "Quantum-Mechanical Correlation Theory of Electromagnetic Fields" (1963) in Nuovo Cimento (journal of the Italian Physical Society).

Filmography

  • Time Travel: The Art of the Possible - a commentary on time travel included on the "Star Trek IV" DVD - Paramount Pictures (DVD Released 1999) [7]

Further reading

  • destinymatrix Sarfatti's blog
  • Zukav, Gary. The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics, 1979, ISBN 0-06-095968-1
  • Talbot, Michael. "Mysticism and the New Physics",1993, revised, updated, ARKANA, Penguin.

References

  1. ^ Google Groups search
  2. ^ weird science
  3. ^ The Universe, As Seen From North Beach
  4. ^ Jack Sarfatti (July 30, 2010). Jack Sarfatti at the San Francisco Theosophical Society Lodge -- July 30, 2010 -- Pt1.mov. San Francisco. Event occurs at 14:50. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  5. ^ Stephen Schwartz lies
  6. ^ http://scotty.ucr.edu/search/a?searchtype=X&SORT=D&searcharg=Sarfatt&searchscope=5&submit.x=30&submit.y=26&submit=Submit
  7. ^ Star Trek IV commentary

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