John Richard Gott
astronom american
John Richard Gott | |
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Născut | (77 de ani) Kentucky, SUA |
Cetățenie | Statele Unite ale Americii |
Ocupație | astronom fizician astrofizician[*] cadru didactic universitar[*] |
Limbi vorbite | limba engleză |
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Alma mater | Universitatea Princeton[1] |
Organizație | Universitatea Princeton |
Premii | Robert J. Trumpler Award[*] ()[2] |
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John Richard Gott III (născut în Louisville, Kentucky, Statele Unite ale Americii) este un astronom și profesor universitar de astrofizică la Princeton University, care este cunoscut în lumea științifică și academică pentru două teorii cosmologice, una referitoare la călătoria în timp, iar cealaltă referitoare la sfârșitul rasei umane (în original, the Doomsday argument).
Teorii exotice referitoare la călătoria în timp
modificareMetoda lui Copernic și Teoria Zilei de Apoi (Doomsday Theory)
modificareEducator
modificareAlte articole
modificare- Scrierile lui Kip Thorne despre călătoria în timp
- Pseudo poliedre, articol despre infinite poliedre în spații tri- și multi-dimensionale periodic polyhedra in 3-space
Note
modificareReferințe (toate în limba engleză)
modificare- Gott, Richard, J III. Implications of the Copernican principle for our future prospects (1993, Nature vol 363, p315) This was Gott's original description of the Doomsday argument. He later published a popularized version in...
- Gott, Richard, J III. A Grim Reckoning, 15 November 1997 New Scientist (page 36).
- Paul Davies, How to build a time machine, 2002, Penguin popular science, ISBN 0-14-100534-3 gives a very brief non-mathematical description of Gott's alternative; the specific setup is not intended by Gott as the best-engineered approach to moving backwards in time, rather, it is a theoretical argument for a non-wormhole means of time travel.
- J Richard Gott, Time Travel in Einstein's Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time, 2002, Houghton Mifflin Books, ISBN 0-618-25735-7
- J. R. Gott, Pseudopolyhedrons, American Mathematical Monthly, Vol 74, p. 497-504, 1967.
Legături externe
modificare- Where did the Moon come from?- A recent magazine article by J. Richard Gott Arhivat în , la Wayback Machine.
- "J. Richard Gott on Life, the Universe, and Everything" an interview with science & spirit magazine which briefly covers Gott's personal views on the major controversies he has stirred up. He combines his two more controversial positions by saying that he would like to travel 200,000 years into the future to see whether his Doomsday argument prediction would pay off.
- Q & A with Dejan Vinkovic illustrated with a few pictures and a GIF animation of a self-creating universe, in which Gott advocates the importance of the average person having an education in science and especially physics.
- Abstract to Gott's "A grim reckoning" New Scientist article - online content of the full article requires a paid registration.
- A link to the entire New scientist article.
- Gott & Li's 1998 self-creating universe model compared with other cosmological models of time Rüdiger Vaas argues that Gott's self-creating universe is not rendered meaningless by Kant's first antinomy of pure reason.
- [1] J. Richard Gott, III - Astronomy Faculty page at Princeton
- John Tierney (). „A Survival Imperative for Space Colonization”. New York Times. on Gott and the Copernican Principle.