George Chapline, Jr.

George Chapline, Jr.

George Frederick Chapline, Jr. is a condensed matter physicist, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is known for his 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. [cite web | author= | title=1980s Laureates: George F. Chapline, Jr., 1982 | url=http://www.science.doe.gov/lawrence/html/Laureates/1980s/georgef.htm | publisher=The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award | date=1982 | accessdate=2008-07-03]

Chapline has performed research on black holes, proposing that they "do not exist." [cite journal | last=Ball | first=Philip | coauthors= | title=Black holes 'do not exist' | journal=Nature | volume= | issue= | pages= | doi=10.1038/news050328-8 |year=2005 | url=http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050328/full/050328-8.html | accessdate=2008-07-03] Drawing his conclusions from quantum mechanical analyses, he believes objects currently thought to be black holes are actually dark-energy stars. [cite journal | last=Chapline | first=G. | coauthors= | title=Dark Energy Stars | journal=Proceedings of the Texas Conference on Relativistic Astrophysics | volume= | issue= | pages= | doi= | month=December | year=2004 | url=http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503200 | accessdate=2008-07-03] Although it currently has little support in the physics community, his proposal was widely reported by the media shortly after its publication in 2006.

ee also

* Dark Energy
* Robert B. Laughlin
* Superconductor

References

External links

* [http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925423.600&feedId=online-news_rss20 Three cosmic enigmas, one audacious answer] , a New Scientist item about Chapline's proposals
* [http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000530.html The Blackhole of Chapline] , from the blog of Jacques Distler, a physicist who sometimes discusses fringe physics.
* [http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapline-black-holes-dont-exist.html Chapline: black holes don't exist] , from the blog of Lubos Motl, another physicist who sometimes discusses fringe physics.
* [http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/beneath.html What Lies Beneath] , popular commentary about the fringe speculations of Laughlin and Chapline


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