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词条 Luboš Motl
释义

  1. Life and career

  2. The Reference Frame

  3. References

  4. External links

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| name = Luboš Motl
| image = Lubos_Motl_in_2011.jpg
| caption = Luboš Motl in 2011
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|12|05|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Plzeň, Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic)
| field = Theoretical physics, String theory
| alma_mater = Charles University (MA)
Rutgers University (PhD)
| doctoral_advisor = Tom Banks
| doctoral_students =
| thesis_title = Nonperturbative Formulations of Superstring Theory
| thesis_url = https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0109149
| thesis_year = 2001
| known_for = {{Plainlist|
  • Matrix string theory
  • Weak gravity conjecture
  • The Reference Frame {{small|(blog)}}

}}
| awards =
| footnotes =
}}

Luboš Motl ({{IPA-cs|ˈluboʃ ˈmotl̩}}; born December 5, 1973) is a Czech theoretical physicist. He was an assistant professor at Harvard University from 2004 to 2007. His scientific publications were focused on string theory.

Life and career

Motl was born in Plzeň, present-day Czech Republic. He won a Bronze Medal at the 1992 International Mathematical Olympiad.[1] He received his master's degree from the Charles University in Prague, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Rutgers University (2001) and has been a Harvard Junior Fellow (2001–2004) and assistant professor (2004–2007) at Harvard University. In 2007, he left Harvard and returned to the Czech Republic.

Despite being an undergraduate at a Czech university where none of the faculty specialized in string theory, Motl came to the attention of a noted string theorist, Professor Thomas Banks, in 1996 when Banks read an arXiv posting by Motl on matrix string theory. "I was at first a little annoyed by [Motl's] paper, because it scooped me," said Banks. "This feeling turned to awe when I realized that Lubos was still an undergraduate".[2] He then became a graduate student of Tom Banks, and wrote his PhD thesis on matrix theory. While at Harvard, Motl worked on the pp-wave limit of AdS/CFT correspondence, twistor theory and its application to gauge theory with supersymmetry, black hole thermodynamics and the conjectured relevance of quasinormal modes for loop quantum gravity, deconstruction, and other topics. In 2006, he proposed the Weak Gravity Conjecture with Nima Arkani-Hamed, Alberto Nicolis and Cumrun Vafa. He is the author of L'équation Bogdanov, a 2008 French-language book discussing the scientific ideas and controversy of the Bogdanov brothers.[3]

The Reference Frame

Motl writes a science and politics blog called "The Reference Frame: Supersymmetric world from a conservative viewpoint", which has been described as an "over-the-top" defense of string theory.[4] Following the example of Oriana Fallaci, he characterizes himself as a Christian atheist.[5][6]

Motl has strongly criticised Erik Verlinde's entropic gravity theory.[7][8]

References

1. ^{{cite web | title=International Mathematical Olympiad | website=International Mathematical Olympiad | url=https://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=3111 | access-date=2017-10-11}}
2. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/01/science/world-science-becomes-global-village-archive-opens-new-realm-research.html "The World of Science Becomes a Global Village; Archive Opens a New Realm of Research"], James Glanz, New York Times, May 1, 2001
3. ^{{cite book |last=Motl |first1=Luboš |title=L'équation Bogdanov: le secret de l'origine de l'univers? |publisher=Presses de la Renaissance |year=2008 |isbn= 978-2750903862 }}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HoqJ9TbteLYC&pg=PA279&dq=lubos+motl |title=The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory - George Musser |page=279 |publisher=Books.google.com |date= |accessdate=2015-08-25}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://motls.blogspot.com/2011/09/are-all-climate-skeptics-theocratic.html |title=The Reference Frame: Are all climate skeptics theocratic? |publisher=Motls.blogspot.com |date=2011-09-09 |accessdate=2015-08-25}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/09/oriana-fallaci-force-of-reason.html |title=The Reference Frame: Oriana Fallaci: The Force of Reason |publisher=Motls.blogspot.com |date=2006-09-27 |accessdate=2015-08-25}}
7. ^{{cite web | title=First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter | website=New Scientist | date=2016-12-15 | url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2116446-first-test-of-rival-to-einsteins-gravity-kills-off-dark-matter/ | access-date=2017-08-01}}
8. ^{{cite web | title=Verlinde's de Sitter MOND is highly incomplete, to say the least | website=The Reference Frame | date=2016-11-12 | url=http://motls.blogspot.com/2016/11/verlindes-de-sitter-mond-is-highly.html | access-date=2017-08-01|type=Blog}}

External links

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  • The Reference Frame, Luboš Motl's blog
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