`  ==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; 20 July 1974; page 46). 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 Geller's psychoenergetic authenticity.`` (Science News, 6 December 1975, page 355).' However, on the basis of two further meetings with Uri Geller in 2004, as well as evidence he and Fred Alan Wolf were shown in Brasil in 1984 by a Brasilian Army General, Sarfatti's opinion in 2005 is that Geller has real psychic ability from his direct contact with the same alien extra-terrestrials here on Earth that also contact him as a child in 1952 or 1953. 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 e-mail on these issues of ``high strangeness`` as defined in NIDS reports by Eric Davis and Jacques Vallee.  In 1975 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 co-authors of Space-time and Beyond published by Dutton in 1975. At this time he postulated that paraphysical occurences could be explained by ``non-local quantum connections`` (see Space-time 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, 1981. This chapter has a good deal about Sarfatti's 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, 1981. This chapter has a good deal about Sarfatti's activities at about this time 30 years ago.). Sarfatti subsequently retracted his particular design when he realized it would not work because it assumed orthodox quantum theory that has the ``no-cloning 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 ``post-quantum 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 1970's by Puthoff and Targ are essentially valid. Sarfatti worked with CIA Chief of Station, the late Harold Chipman in the mid-1980s 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 1960s as shown by an official CIA document recently declassified. Remote Viewing is further evidence for 'signal nonlocality' in Sarfatti's current opinion in 2005. The definitive book on US Intelligence Community interest in the paranormal is Jim Schnabel's 'Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies'    [edit]   Other activities  In various writings over the years, Sarfatti has apparently made numerous claims about his activities, including:  consulting for U.S. intelligence agencies on the so-called ``physics`` of remote-viewing; consulting for the U.S. Department of Defense on the Strategic Defense Initiative; worked under ``deep cover`` on ``cold-war intelligence missions`` [edit]   Delete the following completely. It is irresponsible and defamatory. Crank.net & usenet.kooks are disreputable sources and low-life 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: ``Sarfatti's websites have earned the crankiest rating from the crank.net website, and h