Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004. Since July 2004, Afshar has been a Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rowan University. His highest academic degree is Bachelor of Surgery He has numerous patents to his name in high-tech and in 2014 was ranked as the 8th smartest person alive by Super Scholar.
The Afshar experiment is an optical experiment, which he claims demonstrates a contradiction of the principle of complementarity in quantum mechanics.
As a result of the controversy surrounding claims made about the experiment, Afshar complained that he has been attacked over his religion and ethnicity. These personal attacks drew a rebuke in an editorial in the New Scientist, which called them "extreme" and an "entirely wrong kind of conflict".
Business More recently Afshar is President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Immerz Incorporated, a startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that makes the immersive media KOR-fx product. In his interviews with Cable News Network and Bloomberg television, it has been called "4D technology", as a follow on to the recent success of 3D entertainment.
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 and in an award-winning article in Popular Science.
He offered his own theory on the origin of inertia instead. With the announcement on July 4, 2012 by scientists at European Organization of Nuclear Research that they had detected the Higgs boson Afshar appeared to have lost the bet. The evidence at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (European Organization of Nuclear Research) suggests the existence of the Higgs, but few reputable physicists have called it completely dispositive as of January 2013.
Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director general of European Organization of Nuclear Research, is among those withholding affirmation of this research.
Doctor Heuer called the discovery "a historic milestone." However he and others said that it was too soon to know for sure, whether the new particle is the one predicted by the Standard Model, the theory that has ruled physics for the last half-century, and it will take further work to determine the accuracy.