| 词条 | Alexander Abian |
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| name = Alexander Abian | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Alexander (Smbat) Abian | birth_date = {{birth date|mf=yes|1923|1|1}} | birth_place = Tabriz, Iran | children = | death_date = {{death date and age|1999|7|24|1923|1|1|mf=yes}} | death_place = Ames, Iowa | nationality = | other_names = Smbat Abian | occupation = Professor at Iowa State University | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} Alexander (Smbat) Abian (January 1, 1923 – July 24, 1999)[1] was an Iranian-born Armenian-American mathematician who taught for over 25 years at Iowa State University and became notable for his frequent posts to various Usenet newsgroups. LifeAbian was born in Tabriz, Iran, and was of Armenian ethnicity. After earning an undergraduate degree in Iran, he emigrated to the United States in 1950, where he received a master's degree from the University of Chicago. Abian then obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati, where he wrote a dissertation on a topic in invariant theory under the direction of Isaac Barnett.[2] After teaching posts in Tennessee, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, he joined the faculty of Iowa State in 1967. He wrote three books and published more than two hundred papers. He retired in 1993.[3] Moonless Earth theoryAbian gained a degree of international notoriety for his claim that blowing up the Moon would solve virtually every problem of human existence. He made this claim in 1991 in a campus newspaper,[4] stating that a Moonless Earth wouldn't wobble, eliminating both the seasons and its associated events like heat waves, snowstorms and hurricanes.[5] Refutations were given toward that idea by NASA saying that part of the exploded Moon would come back as a meteorite impacting the Earth and causing sufficient damage to extinguish all life, while restoring the seasons in the process. Abian said that "Those critics who say 'Dismiss Abian's ideas' are very close to those who dismissed Galileo."[6] This claim and others, made in thousands of Usenet posts during the last portion of his life, gained Abian mention (not entirely favorable) and even interviews in such diverse publications as Omni, People, Weekly World News,[7] and The Wall Street Journal.[8] The proposed nuclear destruction of the Moon is criticized (2018) for 1. a likely failure of deep nuclear explosions to do more than crack the Moon, 2. if successful, heating of Earth's atmosphere by a hail of falling lunar debris, destructive to all life, and 3. an increase, not decrease, in the Earth's wobble without a stabilizing Moon, leading to an Earth axial tilt of 45 degrees and more drastic seasons.[9][10] Books
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References1. ^{{cite web | url = http://iowaobits.tributes.com/obituary/show/Alexander-Abian-38024256 | website = tributes.com | publisher = Tributes, Inc. | access-date = 18 November 2017 | quote = Alexander was born on January 1, 1923 and passed away on Saturday, July 24, 1999. ... The information in this obituary is based on data from the US Government's Social Security Death Index.}} 2. ^{{mathgenealogy|id=237}} 3. ^{{citation|url=http://www.amestrib.com/news.cfm?num=143 |title=ISU professor Abian dies at 76 |first=Rebecca |last=Anderson |date=July 1999 |newspaper=Ames Tribune |department=Mid-Iowa News |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20001204074300/http://www.amestrib.com/news.cfm?num=143 |archivedate=December 4, 2000 }}. 4. ^{{cite news |title=YIKES!: GOODNIGHT, MOON Shoot the moon? Hell, says Prof. Alexander Abian, why not just blow it up?; |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20115383,00.html| publisher=People | date=1991-06-24 | accessdate=2006-10-18 }} 5. ^{{cite newsgroup | title = BLOW UP THE MOON to jolt the Earth into a new orbit | author = Alexander Abian | date = 12 January 1998 | newsgroup = sci.physics.relativity | url = https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/sci.physics.relativity/F7IyW8Sq1LM/gi9cTFJoEs8J;context-place=topic/sci.physics.relativity/HFHkeVSHZBg | access-date = 18 November 2017}} 6. ^{{cite news |first=Richard |last=Morin |title=Drunks + Kids = Profits |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/29/AR2006052900845.html|work=The Washington Post | date=2006-05-30 | accessdate=2006-10-18}} 7. ^{{cite newspaper |last=Donovan |first=Dick |title=Iowa professor's bizarre plan to turn Earth into Garden of Eden: BLOW THE MOON TO SMITHEREENS! |newspaper=Weekly World News |publication-place=Lantana, Florida |date=April 16, 1991 |volume=12 |number=26 |page=4-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvQDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA4 |accessdate = May 18, 2018}} 8. ^Valente, Judith. "Hate Winter? Here's A Scientist's Answer: Blow Up the Moon." The Wall Street Journal. April 22, 1991. 9. ^{{cite news |title=What would happen if we blew up the Moon? |work=Very Interesting Magazine |first=Tim |last=Myburgh |issue=40 |date=2018-03-01}} 10. ^{{cite news |title=What would happen if we blew up the Moon? |work=Skyways Magazine |issue=May, 2018 |publisher=Airlink (Pty) Ltd. |place=Johannesburg |date=2018-05-01}} External links
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