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Friedwardt Winterberg (born June 12, 1929) is a German-American theoretical physicist and research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. With more than 260 publications and three books, he is known for his research in areas spanning general relativity, Planck scale physics, nuclear fusion, and plasmas. His work in nuclear rocket propulsion earned him the 1979 Hermann Oberth Gold Medal of the Wernher von Braun International Space Flight Foundation〔 Astronautics & Aeronautics Magazine, AIAA, v. 17, p 83, 1979, ISSN 0004-6213〕〔(Bio ) from the University of Nevada, Reno website.〕 and in 1981 a citation by the Nevada Legislature.〔〔Nevada Legislature, Statutes of the State of Nevada passed at the 61st Session of the Legislature, Senate Concurrent Resolution no. 68, William S. Hein & Co, 1981〕 He is also an honorary member of the German Aerospace Society Lilienthal-Oberth. He is known for his proposal to put accurate atomic clocks on Earth-orbiting satellites in order to directly test General Relativity, his fusion activism, his first proposal to experimentally test Elsasser's theory of the geodynamo, his defense of rocket scientist Arthur Rudolph, and his involvement in the Albert Einstein-David Hilbert priority dispute. == Biography == Winterberg was born in 1929 in Berlin, Germany. In 1953 he received his MSc from the University of Frankfurt working under Friedrich Hund, and in 1955 he received his PhD in physics from the Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, as a student of Werner Heisenberg. In 1959, Winterberg was brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip.〔http://books.google.com/books?id=B7RV_vASz0EC&pg=PR7&dq=winterberg+paperclip&hl=en&sa=X&ei=er8MU4mcGaSMyAGiyIGgAw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=winterberg%20paperclip&f=false〕 Friedwardt was 15 at the end of the war. Paperclip continued to recruit German scientists through the Cold War to prevent them from working for the Soviets. Winterberg is known for his work in the fields of nuclear fusion and plasma physics, and Edward Teller has been quoted as saying that he had "perhaps not received the attention he deserves" for his work on fusion. He is an elected member of the Paris-based International Academy of Astronautics, in which he sat on the Committee of Interstellar Space Exploration.〔Cited in the University of Nevada System Board of Regents' Meeting Minutes, April 12–13, 1990. Online at (Nevada.edu ) Retrieved February 17, 2006.〕 According to his faculty webpage, in 1954 he "made the first proposal to test general relativity with atomic clocks in earth satellites" and his thermonuclear microexplosion ignition concept〔F. Winterberg, "Rocket propulsion by thermonuclear microbombs ignited with intense relativistic electron beams", Raumfahrtforschung 15, 208-217 (1971).〕 was adopted by the British Interplanetary Society for their Project Daedalus Starship Study.〔〔Alan Bond and Anthony R. Martin, Project Daedalus - Final Report, Journal of The British Interplanetary Society, pp. S1-S192, 1978.〕 His current research is on the "Planck Aether Hypothesis", "a novel theory that explains both quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity as asymptotic low energy approximations, and gives a spectrum of particles greatly resembling the standard model. Einstein's gravitational and Maxwell's electromagnetic equations are unified by the symmetric and antisymmetric wave mode of a vortex sponge, Dirac spinors result from gravitationally interacting bound positive-negative mass vortices, which explains why the mass of an electron is so much smaller than the Planck mass. The phenomenon of charge is for the first time explained to result from the zero point oscillations of Planck mass particles bound in vortex filaments."〔Winterberg (2002).〕 The theory proposes that the only free parameters in the fundamental equations of physics are the Planck length, mass, and time, and shows why R3 is the natural space, as SU2 is treated as the fundamental group isomorphic to SO3 — an alternative to string field theories in R10 and M theory in R11. It permits the value of the finestructure constant at the Planck length to be computed, and this value remarkably agrees with the empirical value. He has published extensively on many aspects of physics from the 1950s through the present. In 2008, Winterberg criticized string theory and pointed out the shortcomings of Einstein's general theory of relativity because of its inability to be reconciled with quantum mechanics at the Physical Interpretations of Relativity Theory conference and published his findings in ''Physics Essays''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Friedwardt Winterberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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