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Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is an American theoretical physicist. Working largely outside academia, most of Sarfatti's publications revolve around quantum physics and consciousness.
Sarfatti was a leading member of the Fundamental Fysiks Group, an informal group of physicists in California in the 1970s who, according to historian of science David Kaiser, aimed to inspire some of the investigations into quantum physics that underlie parts of quantum information science.Kaiser 2011, p. xxiiiff; David Kaiser, "Lecture: How the Hippies Saved Physics", WGBH PBS, April 28, 2010 (hereafter Kaiser 2010), from 04:00 mins, particularly from 11:00 mins. George Johnson, "What Physics Owes the Counterculture", The New York Times, June 17, 2011. Sarfatti co-wrote Space-Time and Beyond (1975; with Bob Toben and Fred Alan Wolf) and has published several books.For Sarfatti's authorship of Space-Time and Beyond, Kaiser 2011, p. 136; Rosen 1994, p. 141; also see Kaiser 2010, from 23:22 mins.
After graduating from Midwood High School in 1956, Sarfatt attended Cornell University, where he received a B.A. in physics in 1960. Following graduate studies at Cornell and Brandeis University,Alex Burns, "Jack Sarfatti: Weird Science" , 21C magazine, 1996. he obtained an M.S. in 1967 from the University of California, San Diego and a Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of California, Riverside under Fred Cummings, both in physics; his dissertation was "Gauge Invariance in the Theory of Superfluidity."For the MS, Schwartz 1997, p. 5; for the PhD, Jack Sarfatti, "Gauge Invariance in the Theory of Superfluidity", The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System.
In the 1970s, he changed the spelling of his name from Sarfatt to Sarfatti.
Sarfatti was invited to help shape the 100 Year Starship program.
Sarfatti's ideas relating quantum physics to David Chalmers's "Hard problem of consciousness" (i.e., how our conscious experiences are generated) are mentioned in a paper by Paavo Pylkkänen.
Sarfatti claims to have been recruited by agents of the CIA and DOD to work on both the physics of consciousness and the propulsion of "flying saucers" back in the 1970s. MIT professor David Kaiser mentions these connections in his book How the Hippies Saved Physics. As evidence Sarfatti cites a recording of his 1973 meeting with Harold E. Puthoff, Russell Targ, and others on his visit to Stanford Research Institute.
Sarfatti's name appears in several released CIA documents including a summary for the STARGATE project for remote viewing published June 1, 1979.
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