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**Shahriar S. Afshar**
Shahriar S. Afshar
Born	1971; Iran
Residence	USA
Citizenship	Iranian-American
Fields	Physicist, Inventor and Entrepreneur
Institutions	Harvard University, Rowan University, IRIMS, Perimeter Institute
Alma mater	Harvard University
Known for	Afshar experiment

Shahriar S. Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار ) (born 1971 ^[4]) is an Iranian-American physicist. He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004.^[5] As of July 2004, Afshar is a Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rowan University.^[6]

Afshar's experiment is an optical experiment, which is claimed to demonstrate a contradiction of the principle of complementarity in quantum mechanics.^[7] As a result of the controversy surrounding claims made about the experiment, Afshar has been attacked over his religion and ethnicity.^[8] These personal attacks drew a rebuke in a New Scientist editorial, which called them "extreme", and an "entirely wrong kind of conflict".^[9]

More recently Afshar has been concentrating on his commercial interests, as President, CEO & CTO of Immerz Inc, a Cambridge MA startup, in the consumer electronics games field.^[2]

On November 18, 2009, on the eve of LHC's launch, Afshar announced a wager against LHC being able to find the Higgs Boson in a New Scientist commentary, offering instead his proposed theory on the origin of inertia delineated in a 1999 paper.^[10]

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^ ^a ^b [2][3]Professional Profile at LinkedIn
^ Professional Profile at LinkedIn
^ A great leap forwardIndependent, Wednesday, 6 October 2004
^ Afshar SS (2004). "Waving Copenhagen Good-bye: Were the founders of Quantum Mechanics wrong?". Harvard seminar announcement.
^ http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/528029/
^ Afshar SS, Flores E, McDonald KF, Knoesel E. (2007). "Paradox in wave-particle duality". Foundations of Physics 37 (2): 295–305.
^ Marcus Chown (2007). "Quantum rebel wins over doubters". New Scientist (2591): 13.
^ Marcus Chown (2007). "Editorial: Keep science fair, and keep it clean". New Scientist (2591): 2.
^ Shahriar S. Afshar (1999). "Non-machian, Lorentz-invariant inertia: The first step towards the theory of GravitoElectroMagnetism". AIP Conference Proceedings 458: 1033–1039.

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[xconomy.com-1] [2][3]Professional Profile at LinkedIn

[2] Professional Profile at LinkedIn

[3] A great leap forwardIndependent, Wednesday, 6 October 2004

[Afshar2004-4] Afshar SS (2004). "Waving Copenhagen Good-bye: Were the founders of Quantum Mechanics wrong?". Harvard seminar announcement.

[5] ttp://www.newswise.com/articles/view/528029/

[Afshar2007-6] Afshar SS, Flores E, McDonald KF, Knoesel E. (2007). "Paradox in wave-particle duality". Foundations of Physics 37 (2): 295–305.

[Afshar2007.283.29-7] Marcus Chown (2007). "Quantum rebel wins over doubters". New Scientist (2591): 13.

[newscientist-editorial-2591-8] Marcus Chown (2007). "Editorial: Keep science fair, and keep it clean". New Scientist (2591): 2.

[Afshar1999.281.29-9] Shahriar S. Afshar (1999). "Non-machian, Lorentz-invariant inertia: The first step towards the theory of GravitoElectroMagnetism". AIP Conference Proceedings 458: 1033–1039.

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