Jack Sarfatti

Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist. Working largely outside academia, most of Sarfatti's publications revolve around quantum physics and consciousness.

Sarfatti was a leading member of the Fundamental Fysiks Group, an informal group of physicists in California in the 1970s who, according to historian of science David Kaiser, aimed to inspire some of the investigations into quantum physics that underlie parts of quantum information science. Sarfatti co-wrote Space-Time and Beyond (1975; credited to Bob Toben and Fred Alan Wolf) and has self-published several books. Sarfatti's interview in the book, "Future Humans and the UFOs" by Diane Tessmanpublished 2020 by Flying Disk Press, explains the concept of low power warp drive for laypeople to understand.

Education

Sarfatti was born in Brooklyn, New York to Hyman and Millie Sarfatti and raised in the Midwood neighborhood. His father was born in Kastoria, Greece, and moved to New York as a child with his family.

After graduating from Midwood High School in 1956, Sarfatti attended Cornell University and received a B.A in physics in 1960, followed by graduate studies at Cornell and Brandeis University. He obtained an M.S. in 1967 from the University of California, San Diego and a Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of California, Riverside under Fred Cummings, both in physics; his dissertation was "Gauge Invariance in the Theory of Superfluidity."

Academic career

From 1967 to 1971, Sarfatti was an assistant professor of physics at San Diego State University. He also studied at the Cornell Space Science Center, the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment, the Max Planck Institute for Physics, and International Centre for Theoretical Physics.Then he decided to leave academia around the time when he was in Trieste.

Politics

According to Kaiser, Sarfatti's politics have leaned to the right since the early 1980s, when he became dependent on a cadre of "politically conservative thinkers who were drawn to certain New Age ideas" for research funding following the dissolution of his relationship with Werner Erhard. He endorses the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory and perceives the majority of faculty at American universities as constituting "the enemy within."

A longtime patron of Caffe Trieste, Sarfatti has been involved in the Fundamental Fysiks Group, the Physics–Consciousness Research Group, 100 Year Starship and other research projects.

• Toben, Bob (1975). Space-Time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation of the Unexplainable. E.P. Dutton (Toben in conversation with Fred Alan Wolf and Jack Sarfatti). ISBN 978-0-525-47399-2
• Tessman, Diane (2020) "Future Humans and the UFOs" Flying Disk Press (interview with Sarfatti on concept and formula for low power warp drive potential).ISBN B081-WW8RFV