João Magueijo
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João Magueijo is a cosmologist and lecturer in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.
He is a supporter of the Variable Speed of Light theory of cosmology, which proposes that the speed of light was much higher in the early universe. It is presented as an alternative to the more mainstream theory of Cosmic Inflation. The model was first proposed by John Moffat, a Canadian scientist, in the early 1990s.
Magueijo presents a scathing critique of the scientific academia and discusses his personal struggles pursuing VSL in his 2003 book Faster Than The Speed of Light, The Story of a Scientific Speculation.
[edit] Biography
He was born in 1967 in Évora, Portugal. He undertook graduate work and Ph.D. at Cambridge. He was awarded a research fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge the same fellowship previously held by Paul Dirac and Abdus Salam.
[edit] References
- Magueijo, João; Faster Than The Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation . Basic Books. 0738205257
- Albrecht and Magueijo; "A time varying speed of light as a solution to cosmological puzzles" http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9811018
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