Message from J Wales and changes to the article On Oct 14 2005 at 3 17 PM Jimmy Wales wrote I welcome Jack s complaints about Wikipedia although I encourage him to slow down and relax a bit these things often take a bit of time and screaming bloody murder at everyone does not help one single bit Indeed it very much hinders the process of correcting the article because it turns off the very people who are trying to help Jack and excites those who are trying to annoy him However I would appreciate very much being taken off the cc line for general specuations about the KGB and the CIA and physics and the end of the world I try to read everything people send me but if I m busy reading all this stuff I have less time to help Jack Jimbo Below is the article as of now between quotes and my comments Jack Sarfatti From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Jack Sarfatti born September 14 1939 is a physicist known for his Internet writings and Usenet postings explaining his theories His reputation for holding controversial and non mainstream views extends back to the 1970s Some of his wide ranging views have included speculations of UFOs as extraterrestrials the idea that some parapsychological phenomena are real speculations that faster than light communication is possible and most recently his design for space travel by warping spacetime in the region of the vehicle using dark energy Josephson junction techniques a form of metric engineering He also claims to have originated the idea of supersolids The above sentence should be changed to He also claims to have originated the idea of recently observed supersolids in 1969 in the paper Destruction of Superflow in Unsaturated 4He Films and the Prediction of a New Crystalline Phase of 4He with Bose Einstein Condensation in Physics Letters Vol 30A number 5 3 November 1969 p 300 The following eminent physicists testified to this claim George Chapline Jr Lawrence Livermore Laboratory wrote on Feb 16 2005 Jack Your solid He4 superfluid paper is wonderful You actually did something once of very great importance and apparently you did not realize this This paper is a precursor to quantum gravity and much more important in that regard than string theory you can quote me George David Finkelstein wrote on March 26 2005 Dear Jack Congratulations What greater pleasure can a physicist have than see a long range prediction finally come true David In addition Leonard Susskind of Stanford University Physics Department wrote on Dec 31 2004 To whom it may concern The Glogower Susskind paper of 1963 which introduced phase operators for a quantum oscillator was in direct response to discussions between Glogower Susskind and Jack Sarfatti Sarfatti s contributions were significant The correct attribution should be to the Glogower Sarfatti Susskind operators Sincerely Leonard Susskind Contents hide 1 Education 2 Involvement with paraphysics 3 Other activities 4 Criticism 5 Publications 6 External links edit Education Sarfatti earned an undergraduate degree from Cornell University in 1960 where he wrote an honors thesis under the guidance of Hans Bethe He went on to earn a Master s degree from UCSD in 1967 and a Ph D from UCR in 1969 writing a thesis under the direction of Fred Cummings He taught at San Diego State and studied as a research fellow under David Bohm at the University of London before venturing into non academic pursuits edit This part Involvement with paraphysics On 21 June 1974 Sarfatti observed alleged psychic Uri Geller and reported that Geller demonstrated genuine psychoenergetic ability at Birbeck beyond the doubt of any reasonable man under relatively well controlled and repeatable experimental conditions Science News vol 106 20 July 1974 page 46 He later revised this opinion after discussing the matter with James Randi He wrote in a letter On the basis of further experience in the art of conjuring I wish to retract my endorsement of Uri Geller s psychoenergetic authenticity Science News 6 December 1975 page 355 Should be changed to Involvement with paraphysics On 21 June 1974 Sarfatti observed alleged psychic Uri Geller and reported that Geller demonstrated genuine psychoenergetic ability at Birbeck beyond the doubt of any reasonable man under relatively well controlled and repeatable experimental conditions Science News vol 106