Jean-Pierre Petit
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Jean-Pierre Petit is a French scientist, member of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, National Center for Scientific Research). He is the author of French-language comic books titled Anselme Lanturlu, aimed as explaining scientific principles to children and other people without scientific background.
Scientific reputation
Petit is a pioneer in magnetohydrodynamics. He started to work on this subject in the 1960s.
Petit has lost respect from the scientific community because of the bizarre claims he has made on several controversial topics. He claims that aliens from Ummo have sent letters to selected people, including himself. He contends that the US Air Force now has incredibly fast aircraft, Aurora, due to secretly conducted research on magnetohydrodynamics. Aurora would use a conventional turbofan propulsion system, feeded by a MHD controlled hypersonic air inlet. And he claims that the US military has a powerful antimatter bomb that they successfully detonated on planet Jupiter. Because of these views, he has been largely banned from the French scientific community.
See also
External links
- Jean-Pierre Petit's Web site (http://www.jp-petit.com/), mostly in French, some parts in English.