Message from J Wales and changes to the article  On Oct   at  PM Jimmy Wales wrote  I welcome Jacks 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 Im 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   is a physicist known for his Internet writings and Usenet postings explaining his theories His reputation for holding controversial and nonmainstream views extends back to the s  Some of his wideranging views have included speculations of UFOs as extraterrestrials the idea that some parapsychological phenomena are real speculations that fasterthanlight 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  in the paper Destruction of Superflow in Unsaturated He Films and the Prediction of a New Crystalline Phase of He with BoseEinstein Condensation in Physics Letters Vol A number   November  p  The following eminent physicists testified to this claim  George Chapline Jr Lawrence Livermore Laboratory wrote on Feb    Jack Your solid He 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     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   To whom it may concern The Glogower Susskind paper of  which introduced phase operators for a quantum oscillator was in direct response to discussions between Glogower Susskind and Jack Sarfatti Sarfattis contributions were significant The correct attribution should be to the Glogower Sarfatti Susskind operators Sincerely Leonard Susskind   Contents hide  Education  Involvement with paraphysics  Other activities  Criticism  Publications  External links   edit   Education  Sarfatti earned an undergraduate degree from Cornell University in  where he wrote an honors thesis under the guidance of Hans Bethe He went on to earn a Masters degree from UCSD in  and a PhD from UCR in  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 nonacademic pursuits  edit This part  Involvement with paraphysics  On  June  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 wellcontrolled and repeatable experimental conditions Science News vol   July  page  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 Gellers psychoenergetic authenticity Science News  December  page   Should be changed to  Involvement with paraphysics  On  June  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 wellcontrolled and repeatable experimental conditions Science News vol   July  page  He later temporarily revised this opinion under pressure from 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 Gellers psychoenergetic authenticity Science News  December  page  However on the basis of two further meetings with Uri Geller in  as well as evidence he and Fred Alan Wolf were shown in Brasil in  by a Brasilian Army General Sarfattis opinion in  is that Geller has real psychic ability from his direct contact with the same alien extraterrestrials here on Earth that also contact him as a child in  or  Sarfatti claims that he and Dan Smith are in touch with the highest levels of the US Intelligence Community on almost a daily basis by email on these issues of high strangeness as defined in NIDS reports by Eric Davis and Jacques Vallee  In  he publicly stated that he had serious information indicating a high probability that extraterrestrial contacts are being made in a letter to James Randi quoted in Magic and Paraphysics see below At about this time he became one of the three coauthors of Spacetime and Beyond published by Dutton in  At this time he postulated that paraphysical occurences could be explained by nonlocal quantum connections see Spacetime and Beyond  Change  He also filed a patent application on a device to transmit coded information faster than light Martin Gardner said of this invention I know of no other physicist who thinks it will work If it does Sarfatti will become one of the greatest physicists of all time in Magic and Paraphysics reprinted as Chapter Eight of Science Good Bad and Bogus Avon  This chapter has a good deal about Sarfattis activities at about this time  to  He also filed a patent disclosure on a device to transmit coded information faster than light Martin Gardner said of this invention I know of no other physicist who thinks it will work If it does Sarfatti will become one of the greatest physicists of all time in Magic and Paraphysics reprinted as Chapter Eight of Science Good Bad and Bogus Avon  This chapter has a good deal about Sarfattis activities at about this time  years ago Sarfatti subsequently retracted his particular design when he realized it would not work because it assumed orthodox quantum theory that has the nocloning theorem Sarfatti does think that FTL communication precisely signal nonlocality does happen as the essential signature of all living matter Signal nonlocality demands an extension of quantum theory that he calls postquantum theory that is to orthodox quantum theory as general relativity is to special relativity Antony Valentini of the Perimeter Institute has formalized this sort of claim by Sarfatti and independently by others most notably Steven Weinberg Henry Stapp Brian Josephson and Roger Penrose in a series of important papers Sarfatti cites experiments by Libet Radin and Bierman as evidence Roger Penrose discusses the Libet evidence in his several books Stuart Hameroff has published several papers on this presponse phenomenon as has Fred Alan Wolf Sarfatti thinks the CIA Remote Viewing experiments at SRI in the s by Puthoff and Targ are essentially valid Sarfatti worked with CIA Chief of Station the late Harold Chipman in the mids and Chipman confirmed to Sarfatti that remote viewing was effective against the Soviet Union in the Clandestine Service Richard Helms instituted CIA interest in the paranormal as far back as the s as shown by an official CIA document recently declassified Remote Viewing is further evidence for signal nonlocality in Sarfattis current opinion in  The definitive book on US Intelligence Community interest in the paranormal is Jim Schnabels Remote Viewers The Secret History of Americas Psychic Spies    edit   Other activities  In various writings over the years Sarfatti has apparently made numerous claims about his activities including  consulting for US intelligence agencies on the socalled physics of remoteviewing consulting for the US Department of Defense on the Strategic Defense Initiative worked under deep cover on coldwar intelligence missions edit   Delete the following completely It is irresponsible and defamatory Cranknet  usenetkooks are disreputable sources and lowlife scum like them have said the same about many visionary scientists including Fred Alan Wolf None of that defamatory garbage is on the Wiki page about Fred Alan Wolf and neither should it be on mine  So DELETE ENTIRELY Sarfattis websites have earned the crankiest rating from the cranknet website and h