User:Gill110951/Joy Christian

Biography
Joy Christian is a physicist who has become well known as an opponent of Bell’s theorem, a result which says that there can be no local hidden variable explanation for some of the correlations attributed to quantum entanglement. Dr Christian was a PhD student of Abner Shimony, at Boston University, USA, going on to be a research fellow at the Perimeter Institute, and then at Wolfson college, Oxford. He was affiliated for several years with the department of Physics, and then briefly with the department of Materials. In 2014 he set up his own research institute, calling it the Einstein Center for Local Realistic Physics, with himself as director. Four further persons are associated with the Center. Its activities are focussed on internet promotion of Dr Christian’s own research.

Scientific work
Christian worked initially in the philosophy of physics, focussing on relativity theory. In 2007 he gained notoriety by publishing a preprint on arXiv with the claim that Bell’s theorem was false. His counterexample to the theorem used Geometric Algebra. It was attacked by many scientists working in the fields of quantum information, and quantum foundations. Undeterred, Christian continued to produce a series of further arXiv preprints and finally a book, in part subsidised by a grant from fQXI. Later still, he published in a number of main-stream peer-reviewed journals, including “IEEE Access” and “Royal Society Open Science”. They received much criticism and one is subject to an “Expression of Concern”. Two articles, one in “International Journal of Theoretical Physics” and another in “Communications in Algebra”, have been retracted by the journals’ editors.