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{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/476278a |author-link=Hugh Gusterson|title=Physics: Quantum outsiders|year=2011|last1=Gusterson|first1=Hugh|journal=Nature|volume=476|issue=7360|pages=278–279|bibcode=2011Natur.476..278G|s2cid=4347880|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=Johnson2011>[[George Johnson (writer)|George Johnson]], [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/books/review/book-review-how-the-hippies-saved-physics-by-david-kaiser.html?pagewanted=all "What Physics Owes the Counterculture"], ''The New York Times'', June 17, 2011.</ref> Sarfatti co-wrote ''Space-Time and Beyond'' (1975; credited to Bob Toben and [[Fred Alan Wolf]]) and has self-published several books.<ref>For Sarfatti's authorship of ''Space-Time and Beyond'', Kaiser 2011, p.&nbsp;136; Rosen 1994, p.&nbsp; [https://books.google.com/books?id=mCwh4h5bKaQC&pg=PA141 141]; also see [https://web.archive.org/web/20110716205057/http://forum-network.org/lecture/how-hippies-saved-physics Kaiser 2010], from 23:22 mins.</ref>

==Early life and education==

==Background==

===Education===

Sarfatti was born in [[Brooklyn, New York]], to Hyman and Millie Sarfatti and raised in the borough's [[Midwood]] neighborhood.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZeLiAAAAMAAJ&q=Hyman+Sarfatti ''Technology Review''], Association of Alumni and Alumnae of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976, p.&nbsp;1; Jack Sarfatti, ''Destiny Matrix''. AuthorHouse, 2002, p.&nbsp;93.</ref> His father was born in [[Kastoria]], Greece, and moved to New York as a child with his family.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Hyman |last=Sarfatti |url=http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/download/342/387 |title=My Story: Cosmic Consciousness & Me |journal=Scientific GOD Journal |volume=5 |issue=8 |date=October 2014 |pages=660–682 [660, 664]}}</ref>

After graduating from [[Midwood High School]] in 1956, Sarfatti attended [[Cornell University]], where he received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in physics in 1960. Following graduate studies at Cornell and [[Brandeis University]],<ref name=Burns>Alex Burns, [http://www.21cmagazine.com/383372/Jack-Sarfatti-Weird-Science "Jack Sarfatti: Weird Science"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226213914/http://www.21cmagazine.com/383372/Jack-Sarfatti-Weird-Science |date=February 26, 2014 }}, 21C magazine, 1996.</ref> 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."<ref>For the MS, [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/08/17/SC46892.DTL&ao=5 Schwartz 1997], p.&nbsp;5; for the PhD, Jack Sarfatt[i], [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1969PhDT.......175S "Gauge Invariance in the Theory of Superfluidity"], The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System.</ref>

==Career==

===Academic career===

From 1967 to 1971, Sarfatti was an [[assistant professor]] of physics at [[San Diego State University]]. He also studied at the Cornell Space Science Center, the UK [[Atomic Energy Research Establishment]], the [[Max Planck Institute for Physics]], and [[International Centre for Theoretical Physics]].<ref name=Burns/><ref>"If the beer don't get you, then the black holes must," ''New Scientist'', October 18, 1973, p.&nbsp;[https://books.google.com/books?id=RWRmXO0ut6YC&pg=PA165 165].</ref> Then he decided to leave academia around the time when he was in [[Trieste]].