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Shahriar Sadigh Afshar ((ペルシア語: شهريار صديق افشار )) (born 1971〔(A great leap forward ). ''Independent'', October 6, 2004〕) is an Iranian-American physicist and multiple award-winning inventor.〔(An accessory that makes you feel - literally - like you're in the videogame you're playing ). By Gregory Mone . May 10, 2010.〕 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.〔(Is It a Particle, a Wave Or Both? Science Team Revisits Nature of Light ). ''Newswise'', March 12, 2007.〕 His highest academic degree is B.S.〔(Rowan University Board of Trustees Meeting ), April 27, 2005.〕 He has numerous patents to his name in high-tech 〔(Patents ), March 19, 2014〕 and is currently ranked as the 8th smartest person alive.〔(30 Smartest People Alive Today ). March 19, 2014.〕 Afshar's experiment is an optical experiment, which is claimed to demonstrate 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".〔 〕 More recently Afshar is President, CEO and CTO of Immerz Inc, a startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts,〔 that makes the immersive media KOR-fx product. In his interviews with CNN and Bloomberg TV, it has been called "4D technology", as a follow on to the recent success of 3D entertainment.〔(Games with 'emotional surround sound' ). By Doug Gross, CNN June 17, 2010.〕〔(Tabitha Soren Discusses 4-D Gaming, Entertainment ). Bloomberg interview.〕 On November 18, 2009, on the eve of Large Hadron Collider's launch, Afshar announced a wager against LHC being able to find the Higgs boson in a commentary in the ''New Scientist''〔()〕 and in an award article in ''Popular Science'' 〔 offering instead his own theory on the origin of inertia. With the announcement on July 4, 2012 by scientists at CERN that they had detected the Higgs boson〔 〕 Afshar appeared to have lost the bet. Actually, the evidence at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) suggests the existence of the Higgs, also known as "the God particle", but few reputable physicists have called it completely dispositive as of January 2013 – certainly, the Director of CERN has not. "Towards the middle of the year, we will be there", said Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director general of CERN, the multinational research center near Geneva in Switzerland.〔(AP Interview: CERN chief firmer on 'God particle' ). ''Times Online'', January 26, 2013.〕 The agency is home to the Large Hadron Collider, the immense particle accelerator that produced the new data by colliding protons. The findings were announced by two separate teams. Dr. Heuer called the discovery "a historic milestone." However he and others said that it was too soon to know for sure, however, whether the new particle is the one predicted by the Standard Model, the theory that has ruled physics for the last half-century. It will take further work to determine it.〔(The Standard Model ). CERN, 2015〕 ==References and notes== 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「Shahriar Afshar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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