Jack Sarfatti is an American theoretical physicist and the author of a
number of popular works on quantum physics and consciousness. 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 — which he calls "the
Conceptual Art of the late 20th Century" — [1] has replaced philosophy
as the unifying force between science and art. [2]
Sarfatti's main interests lie in space migration, intelligence increase,
and life extension.[3] His views include speculation that UFOs may be of
extraterrestrial origin or could be "terrestrial time ships" originating
from our own future; that parapsychological phenomena may be real; that
faster-than-light communication may be possible; and that space travel
could be achieved by warping spacetime.[4]
He is the author of Super Cosmos (2005), Destiny Matrix (2002), and
Space: Time And Beyond Ii (Dark Energy) (2002), and co-author with Fred
Alan Wolf and Bob Toben of Space-Time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation
of the Unexplainable (1982). He is a frequent contributor to Usenet [5]
and has set up a website where he discusses his ideas. [6] Some of his
views on fringe topics are not accepted by the mainstream physics
community. Sarfatti, rightly, wrongly, or, perhaps, not even wrongly, or
perhaps correctly, is unique in making a very bold conjecture about the
nature of physical reality that builds upon John Archibald Wheeler's "IT
from BIT" to which Sarfatti adds "BIT from IT", i.e. a "two way
relation" (Bohm and Hiley's term in "The Undivided Universe") giving a
"spontaneously self-organizing feedback-control loop" ("Destiny Matrix")
between Bohm's "pilot wave" and "hidden variable". This, according to
Sarfatti, happens in macro-quantum open systems far from thermodynamic
equilibrium, i.e. "living matter" and is the origin of "consciousness"
or "qualia". Sarfatti claims that this model obeys all the criteria for
a physics of consciousness set forth by David Chalmers in his 1995
Scientific American article. Sarfatti further claims that the recently
discovered cosmic repulsive anti-gravitational field "dark energy"
accelerating the expansion of the universe is controllable by advanced
ultra-terrestrial intelligences or "metric engineers" like "Q" in
"Startrek". Michio Kaku has the same idea and calls them "The Masters of
Hyperspace." Sarfatti's theories of emergent gravity called
"mathematical nonsense" by his old admirer Waldyr Rodrigues, Jr who
brought Sarfatti to UNICAMP, Brazil as a full professor in 1984 come
from this set of ideas that Sarfatti calls "Making Star Trek Real."
Sarfatti claims that the Einstein-Cartan set of four tetrad fields
emerge from the Goldstone phases of the coherent "World Hologram"
(Susskind & t'Hooft) in the same way that the superfluid helium velocity
field emerges from the coherent macro-quantum phase of the superfluid
order parameter. The difference with Rodrigues is second order on the
formal details of how to implement that intuitive physical idea. The
Einstein-Cartan tetrad fields are like the supersolid elastic distortion
fields but in 4D under the action of local general coordinate
transformations. In this way we see a continuity in the development of
Sarfatti's "supersolid" thoughts in 1969 to his present conjectures on
the origin of gravity and the megaverse in 2006.

Jack Sarfatti is an American theoretical physicist ...

Jack Sarfatti is an American theoretical physicist and the author of a
number of popular works on quantum physics and consciousness.

"andrew beckwith" <projectbeckwi...@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:19206037.1178283179441.JavaMail.jakarta@nitrogen.mathforum.org...

I have met and known Jack since 2005. While he is eccentric, he does not
deserve the innuendo thrown at him. He has tried numerous times to help
individuals in a very unforgiving research enviroment, and has been a
gentleman in every meeting I have had with him going back to 2005 in the
SSI 2005 meeting at SLAC. I think that at the very minimum, professional
courtesty should be extended to allow him to present whom he says he is.

The sort of bickering over his bona fides is why I , who has been
nominated for Marquis Who's who in science and engineering in the last two
years have demurred from stepping in and forwarding a who's who
bibliography. My nomination for Marquis who's who arrived two days ago and
I am going to ignore it, partly due to what is happening to Jack in this
situation

I hope that a few people who dislike Jack will take time to consider just
how unpleasant having their credentials questioned can be. Especially in a
public forum.

That is all I will say about it. Time for a few people to seriously
consider calling off the dogs, and giving him some space.

Wrong, he is a total nut case, not based in science or physics, but
dreamland, pass him by.