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John W. Moffat (b. 12 Oct 1932) is a Professor Emeritus in physics at the University of Toronto. He is also an adjunct Professor in physics at the University of Waterloo and a resident affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Moffat is best known for his work on gravity and cosmology, culminating in his nonsymmetric gravitational theory and scalar–tensor–vector gravity (now called MOG), and summarized in his 2008 book for general readers, ''Reinventing Gravity''. His theory explains galactic rotation curves without invoking dark matter. He proposes a variable speed of light approach to cosmological problems, which posits that ''G''/''c'' is constant through time, but ''G'' and ''c'' separately have not been. Moreover, the speed of light ''c'' may have been more than 30 orders of magnitude higher during the early moments of the Big Bang. His recent work on inhomogeneous cosmological models purports to explain certain anomalous effects in the CMB data, and to account for the recently discovered acceleration of the expansion of the universe. Moffat has proposed a new nonlocal variant of quantum field theory, that is finite at all orders and hence dispenses with renormalization. It also generates mass without a Higgs mechanism. ==An unusual start to a physics career== Moffat began life as a struggling artist, but gave up after living for a time in Paris with no income. Upon returning to Copenhagen, Denmark, he became interested in the cosmos and began teaching himself mathematics and physics. He made such quick progress that within a year he began working on problems of general relativity and unified field theory.
In 1958, he was awarded a Ph.D. without a first degree at Trinity College, Cambridge. (He was supervised by Fred Hoyle and Abdus Salam.)
During a career that spans over five decades, Moffat worked on a variety of subjects in Theoretical Physics. These include particle physics, quantum field theory, quantum gravity and cosmology. 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「John Moffat (physicist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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