Professor Ken B. Wharton
Ken B.
Wharton, Ph.D. is Professor of Physics & Astronomy at
San José State University.
Ken joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at SJSU in 2001.
While
originally an experimental laser physicist, he is now a full-time
quantum theorist. He has also been known to occasionally publish “hard”
(scientifically-accurate) science fiction stories, including his
Divine Intervention
that won the
Special Citation for the 2001 Philip K. Dick Award.
His papers include
Action Duality: A Constructive Principle for Quantum
Foundations,
New Slant on the EPR-Bell Experiment,
A Novel Interpretation of the Klein-Gordon Equation,
Time-Symmetric Boundary Conditions and Quantum Foundations,
Time-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics,
Quantum Theory without Quantization,
The Universe is not a Computer,
A classical analog for the electron spin state, and
Extending Hamilton’s principle to quantize classical fields.
Read the
full list of his publications!
Ken earned his BS in Physics at Stanford University in 1992 and his
Ph.D. in Physics at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
in 1998.
Read
Why The Universe Is Not a Computer After All.