Frederick Kantor

Frederick W. Kantor
Born (1942-07-19) 19 July 1942
United States
Residence New York City
Citizenship American
Alma mater Columbia University (1964)[1]
Known for Information mechanics[2]
Scientific career
Fields Physics
Institutions Columbia University

Frederick Kantor is an American physicist. He is known for his early work on digital physics,[3] originally coined by Kantor as information mechanics which described "previously thought dissimilar phenomena, such as the fine structure constant (on the scale of the very small) and cosmological red shift (on the scale of the very large)".[4]

Greg Bear cited Kantor's Information Mechanics as an inspiration for his 1990 novel Heads.[5] A Reddit editor named delverofsecrets created an Internet hoax involving an apparently chance meeting of Kantor and hundreds of Reddit followers at 6½ Avenue in Manhattan on July 12, 2012; the crowd was eventually dispersed by the New York Police Department.[6][7]

Bibliography

  • Kantor, Frederick W. (1977). Information Mechanics. Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 9780471029687. OCLC 869307439.
  • Kantor, F. W. (June 1982), "An informal partial overview of information mechanics", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 21 (6–7): 525–535, Bibcode:1982IJTP...21..525K, doi:10.1007/BF02650182
  • "New X‐Ray Telescope is Sensitive, Light and Cheap", Physics Today, 20 (3): 88, 1967, Bibcode:1967PhT....20c..88., doi:10.1063/1.3034240

References

  1. ↑ "Photos from Alumni Reunion Weekend and Dean's Day – Class of 1964", Columbia College Today, Columbia University, Summer 2014, retrieved 2017-12-17
  2. ↑ Kantor, Frederick W. (1974), A brief introduction to information mechanics (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-06-15 – via Gravity Research Foundation
  3. ↑ Ray Kurzweil (2005), The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Penguin, ISBN 9781101218884
  4. ↑ Sverdlik, Daniel I. (February 1989), "Maximum mass-particle velocities in Kantor's information mechanics", International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 28 (2): 231–233, Bibcode:1989IJTP...28..231S, doi:10.1007/BF00669814
  5. ↑ Bear, G. (2003). The Collected Stories of Greg Bear. Tom Doherty Associates Books. Tom Doherty Associates. pp. 93–94. ISBN 978-0-7653-0161-1.
  6. ↑ Matt Silverman, "The Chosen One: Meet the Man Who Sparked the Reddit Mystery", Mashable
  7. ↑ Jessica Roy (July 12, 2012), "What Happens When a Mob of Redditors Congregate to Solve—or Not Solve—a Reddit Mystery", New York Observer
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