Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Shahriar Sadigh Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار ) (born 1971) is an Iranian-American physicist and inventor. He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004. Since July 2004, Afshar has been a Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rowan University. His highest academic degree is B.S. He has numerous patents to his name in high-tech and is currently ranked as the 8th smartest person alive.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 complained that he has been attacked over his religion and ethnicity. These personal attacks drew a rebuke in an editorial in the New Scientist, which called them "extreme" and an "entirely wrong kind of conflict".More recently Afshar is President, CEO and CTO of Immerz Inc, a startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that makes the immersive media KOR-fx product. In his interviews with CNN and Bloomberg TV, it has been called "4D technology", as a follow on to the recent success of 3D entertainment.On November 18, 2009, on the eve of Large Hadron Collider's launch, Afshar announced a wager against LHC being able to find the Higgs boson in a commentary in the New Scientist and in an award article in Popular Science offering instead his own theory on the origin of inertia. With the announcement on July 4, 2012 by scientists at CERN that they had detected the Higgs boson Afshar appeared to have lost the bet.. }
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- Shahriar_Afshar abstract "Shahriar Sadigh Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار ) (born 1971) is an Iranian-American physicist and inventor. He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004. Since July 2004, Afshar has been a Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rowan University. His highest academic degree is B.S. He has numerous patents to his name in high-tech and is currently ranked as the 8th smartest person alive.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 complained that he has been attacked over his religion and ethnicity. These personal attacks drew a rebuke in an editorial in the New Scientist, which called them "extreme" and an "entirely wrong kind of conflict".More recently Afshar is President, CEO and CTO of Immerz Inc, a startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that makes the immersive media KOR-fx product. In his interviews with CNN and Bloomberg TV, it has been called "4D technology", as a follow on to the recent success of 3D entertainment.On November 18, 2009, on the eve of Large Hadron Collider's launch, Afshar announced a wager against LHC being able to find the Higgs boson in a commentary in the New Scientist and in an award article in Popular Science offering instead his own theory on the origin of inertia. With the announcement on July 4, 2012 by scientists at CERN that they had detected the Higgs boson Afshar appeared to have lost the bet.".