Shahriar S. Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار ) (born 1971) is an Iranian physicist and an award-winning inventor. He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004. As of July 2004, Afshar is a Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rowan University. His highest academic degree is B.S.
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 has been attacked over his religion and ethnicity. These personal attacks drew a rebuke in a New Scientist editorial, which called them “extreme”, and an “entirely wrong kind of conflict”.
More recently Afshar has been concentrating on his commercial interests, as President, CEO & CTO of Immerz Inc, a Cambridge MA startup, in the consumer electronics games field.
On November 18, 2009, on the eve of LHC‘s launch, Afshar announced a wager against LHC being able to find the Higgs Boson in a New Scientist commentary, offering instead his proposed theory on the origin of inertia delineated in a 1999 paper.
Farzad Naimi
June 30, 2011
Avid Modjtabai
June 26, 2011
Bijan Mossavar Rahmani
June 26, 2011
Nader Modanlo
June 03, 2011
Afshin Mohebbi
June 03, 2011
Mohammad Ketabchi
May 25, 2011
Masoud Loghmani
May 25, 2011
Amin Zoufonoun
May 20, 2011
Hossein Sabet Baktash
May 17, 2011
Roya Zamanzadeh
May 17, 2011Share
