George Chapline, Jr.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Frederick Chapline, Jr. is a condensed matter physicist, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is well-known for several insights such as gossamer superconductors, which he discovered together with Robert Laughlin. He was awarded the E. O. Lawrence award in 1982 by the United States Department of Energy[1].
He has also performed some research on black holes, proposing that they "do not exist"[2], and that objects currently thought to be black holes are actually dark-energy stars[3]. He draws this conclusion from some quantum mechanical analyses. Although it currently has little support in the physics community, his proposal was widely reported by the media shortly after its publication in 2006.
[edit] References and notes
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Three cosmic enigmas, one audacious answer, a New Scientist item about Chapline's proposals
- The Blackhole of Chapline, from the blog of Jacques Distler, a physicist who sometimes discusses fringe physics.
- Chapline: black holes don't exist, from the blog of Lubos Motl, another physicist who sometimes discusses fringe physics.
- What Lies Beneath, popular commentary about the fringe speculations of Laughlin and Chapline
 |
This article about a physicist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
