John Moffat (physicist)

John W. Moffat ( born 1932 ) is a Canadian theoretical physicist who deals with particle physics, quantum field theory, quantum gravity and cosmology.

Moffat wanted to be a painter in his youth and lived for some time in Paris. He studied in Copenhagen and was established in 1958 at the University of Cambridge ( Trinity College) with Fred Hoyle and Abdus Salam doctorate. He was a professor at the University of Toronto. He was also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo and a researcher at the Perimeter Institute.

In 1992 he invented a cosmological theory in which the speed of light in the past was higher than today (Variable Speed ​​of Light, VSL, see also superluminal ), by which he alternatively explained some otherwise dissolved in the theory of inflation, cosmological problems. They also predicts a different fine structure constant in the past, which is in principle observable. 2000, a similar theory by João Magueijo and others have been proposed.

He proposed in 1995 a theory of gravitation before with antisymmetrischem share in the metric ( in addition to the symmetric part of the usual Einstein's general theory of relativity ) and 1990 a non-local theory ( which nevertheless does not violate the causality) of the electroweak interaction with a mass generation without Higgs boson. In 2005 he proposed a scalar - tensor - vector theory of gravitation before ( MOG), which does not require dark matter (whose effect is explained by a modified gravitational interaction ).

In 2012 he received a scholarship from the highly doped Templeton Foundation.

Writings

• Cracking the Code of the Quantum Universe, Oxford University Press, 2014
• Reinventing Gravity, Harper Collins 2008
• Finite nonlocal gauge field theory, Phys. Rev. D 41, 1990, 1177-1184.
• Superluminary Universe: A Possible Solution to the Initial Value Problem in Cosmology, Int. Jour. Mod Phys. D 2, 1993, 351-366, Arxiv
• Nonsymmetric Gravitational Theory, Phys. Lett. B 355, 1995, 447-452