Background
Feinberg, Gerald was born on May 27, 1933 in New York City. Son of Leon and Florence (Weingarten) Feinberg.
physicist university professor
Feinberg, Gerald was born on May 27, 1933 in New York City. Son of Leon and Florence (Weingarten) Feinberg.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1953; Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1957.
He coined the term tachyon for hypothetical faster-than-light particles and analysed their quantum field properties, predicted the existence of the muon neutrino and advocated cryonics as a public service. Parapsychology
Feinberg wrote a foreword to Edgar Mitchell"s book Psychic Explorations (1974) in which he endorsed psychic phenomena. His concept of a tachyon, a theoretical particle that travels faster than the speed of light has been advocated by some parapsychologists who claim that it could explain precognition or psychokinesis.
However, there is no scientific evidence tachyon particles exist and such paranormal claims have been described as pseudoscientific.
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He spent a year as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, and two years at the Brookhaven Laboratories. He was a member of the Foresight Institute"s advisory panel.
Married Barbara J. Silberdick, August 9, 1968. Children— Jeremy Russell, Douglas Loren.