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| Shahriar S. Afshar (Persian: شهریار افشار) | |
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| Born | Shahriar Sadigh Afshar 1971 (age 52–53) Tehran, Imperial State of Iran[citation needed] |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | Iran & American |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Afshar experiment |
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Shahriar Sadigh Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار; born 1971[5]) is an Iranian-American physicist and inventor.[6] He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment while at the private, Boston-based Institute for Radiation-Induced Mass Studies (IRIMS).[7] The results were presented at a Harvard seminar in March 2004.[8]
Biography[edit]
Afshar's highest academic degree is a Bachelor of Science.[9] He was a visiting research professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Rowan University between 2004 and 2007,[10] and has multiple patents to his name in high-tech.[11] He holds Iranian and American dual citizenship.
Afshar experiment[edit]
The Afshar experiment is an optical experiment, which he claims demonstrates a contradiction of the principle of complementarity in quantum mechanics.[12] As a result of the controversy surrounding claims made about the experiment, Afshar claimed that he had been attacked over his religion and ethnicity.[13] These personal attacks drew a rebuke in an editorial in the New Scientist, which called them "extreme" and an "entirely wrong kind of conflict".[14] Attempts to replicate the experiment using a different method for measuring the visibility of the interference pattern than that used by Afshar, and found no violation of complementarity, concluding "the experiment can be perfectly explained by the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics."[15]
Business career[edit]
More recently Afshar is President, CEO and CTO of Immerz Inc, a startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts,[2] that makes the immersive media KOR-fx product; the invention of this haptic feedback product was profiled in APS News.[16] 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.[17][18]
Higgs Boson publicity[edit]
On November 18, 2009, on the eve of Large Hadron Collider's launch, Afshar announced a wager in which he bet against LHC's finding the Higgs boson, also known as "the God particle," in a commentary in the New Scientist[19] and in an award-winning article in Popular Science.[6] He offered his own theory on the origin of inertia instead.[20] With the announcement on July 4, 2012 by scientists at CERN that they had detected the Higgs boson[21] Afshar appears to have lost the bet.
References[edit]
- ↑ S., Afshar, Shahriar (23 February 2007). "Systems and Methods for Haptic Sound". www.wipo.int.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 From A Physics Rebel Shakes Up the Video Game World, Literally, Oct 27, 2009;
- ↑ Immerz puts game vibration on chest device Archived 2009-11-26 at the Wayback Machine Oct 19, 2009;
- ↑ "Institute for Rdiation-Induced Mass Studies (IRIMS)". irims.org. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ↑ A great leap forward. Independent, October 6, 2004
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 An accessory that makes you feel - literally - like you're in the videogame you're playing. By Gregory Mone . May 10, 2010.
- ↑ Chown, Marcus (2004). "Quantum rebel". New Scientist. 183 (2457): 30–35.(subscription required)
- ↑ S. S. Afshar (2004). "Waving Copenhagen Good-bye: Were the founders of Quantum Mechanics wrong?". Harvard Seminar Announcement. Retrieved 2013-12-01.
- ↑ Rowan University Board of Trustees Meeting, April 27, 2005.
- ↑ Is It a Particle, a Wave Or Both? Science Team Revisits Nature of Light. Newswise, March 12, 2007.
- ↑ Patents, March 19, 2014
- ↑ 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. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Marcus Chown (2007). "Quantum rebel wins over doubters". New Scientist (2591): 13.
- ↑ Marcus Chown (2007). "Editorial: Keep science fair, and keep it clean". New Scientist (2591): 2.
- ↑
V. Jacques; et al. (2008). "Illustration of quantum complementarity using single photons interfering on a grating". New Journal of Physics. 10 (12): 123009. arXiv:0807.5079. Bibcode:2008NJPh...10l3009J. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/10/12/123009. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "Profiles in Versatility". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2023-09-21.
- ↑ Games with 'emotional surround sound'. By Doug Gross, CNN June 17, 2010.
- ↑ Tabitha Soren Discusses 4-D Gaming, Entertainment. Bloomberg interview.
- ↑ "Comments - in SUSY we trust: What the LHC is really looking for - New Scientist". Archived from the original on 2014-03-19. Retrieved 2017-09-11. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Shahriar S. Afshar (1999). "Non-machian, Lorentz-invariant inertia: The first step towards the theory of GravitoElectroMagnetism" (PDF). AIP Conference Proceedings. 458: 1033–1039. Bibcode:1999AIPC..458.1033A. doi:10.1063/1.57712. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-03-31. Retrieved 2009-11-18. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Ian Sample (July 4, 2012). "Higgs boson: it's unofficial! Cern scientists discover missing particle". The Guardian.
External links[edit]
- NPR interview NPR's Science Friday
- American Physical Society News (Profiles in Versatility Interview)
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