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Olivier Costa de Beauregard (Paris, 6 November 1911 – Poitiers, 5 February 2007) was a French relativistic and quantum physicist, and philosopher of science. He was an eminent specialist of time and of information theory. He studied under Louis de Broglie.
From 1947, he proposed to de Broglie his interpretation of the EPR paradox which questions the notion of time. In 1974, with Bernard d'Espagnat, he suggested to Christian Imbert, a young professor at Institut d'Optique, to propose to Alain Aspect to perform a Bell's inequalities experimental test, to settle the conflict between the results of Clauser and Freedman at Berkeley, and Holt and Pipkin at Harvard. After Aspect decided to do a different experiment, he explained the quantum mechanical predictions by the theory of retrocausation or CPT-invariance. His numerous publications also concerned the inertial effect of spin, the Imbert effect, Fresnel evanescent wave of Fresnel, and Dirac equation.
Publications (books)
English
- Précis of special relativity, translated by Banesh Hoffmann, Academic Press, 1966
- Time, the physical magnitude, Reidel Publishing Cy, 1987
French
- La Théorie de la relativité restreinte, pref. by Louis de Broglie, Masson, 1949.
- Théorie synthétique de la relativité restreinte et des quanta, Gauthier-Villars, 1957.
- La Notion de temps, équivalence avec l'espace, Hermann, 1963, Librairie philosophique Vrin, 2e édition 1983.
- Le Second Principe de la science du temps, entropie, information, irréversibilité, éd. du Seuil, 1963.
- Précis de relativité restreinte, éd. Dunod, 1964
- Précis de mécanique quantique relativiste, ed. Dunod, 1967
- La Physique moderne et les pouvoirs de l'esprit, éd. Le Hameau, 1980, rééd. 1988
- Le Temps déployé, passé, futur, ailleurs, éditions du Rocher, 1988.
- Le Corps subtil du réel éclaté, Aubin éditeur, 1995
- Le Temps des physiciens : "La Notion de temps" et "Le Second principe de la science du temps", Rééd., Aubin, 1996
- Preuves en biologie de transmutations à faible énergie, NOTE FINALE (Physique Théorique), Maloine, Paris, 1975, p 285-298