I recommend the paper for publication but in a revised form. The New York Times reporter George Johnson described reading through the debate as "like watching someone trying to nail Jell-O to a wall", for the Bogdanovs had "developed their own private language, one that impinges on the vocabulary of science only at the edges."[4]. Igor was born 40 minutes before Grichka. He posted an unpublished version of Grichka Bogdanoff's Ph.D. thesis on his personal website, along with his critical analysis. After several rounds of plastic surgery and botox, the brothers ended up with a shocking appearance. In August 2004, they presented a 90-minute special cosmology program. These brothers fuck. The scientific language was just an appearance behind which hid incompetence and ignorance of even basic physics.[24]. Damien Calaque of the Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, criticized Grichka Bogdanov's unpublished preprint "Construction of cocycle bicrossproducts by twisting". In August 2004, they presented a 90-minute special cosmology program in which they introduced their theory among other cosmological scenarios. [66], The affair prompted many comments about the possible shortcomings of the referral system for published articles, and also on the criteria for acceptance of a PhD thesis. The French mainstream media, in both the press and on the Internet, covered the renewed controversy to some extent; media outlets that reported upon it include Acrimed[15] and Ciel et Espace. [42] The Bogdanoffs also sued the CNRS for 1.2 million in damages, claiming that the CNRS report had "port atteinte leur honneur, leur rputation et leur crdit" ("undermined their honor, reputation and credit") and calling the report committee a "Stasi scientifique", but a tribunal ruled against them in 2015 and ordered them to pay 2,000. 45. It was around this time that the twin brothers reached their peak with a futuristic anticipation TV show, before being criticized for the credibility of their scientific work and being taunted for their transformed physique. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Frstliche Huser XIX. Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff became France's most famous twins, hosting a TV science and science-fiction show in the 1980s on a spaceship set. There is, after all, a long-standing meme that the twins are able to control the market. Knowledge pertaining the Bogdanoffs is known as the Bogpill, a term that is a nod to the Matrix's red/blue pill scene. [34], Motl's measured support for "Topological field theory of the initial singularity of spacetime", however, stands in stark contrast to Robert Oeckl's official MathSciNet review, which states that the paper is "rife with nonsensical or meaningless statements and suffers from a serious lack of coherence," follows up with several examples to illustrate his point, and concludes that the paper "falls short of scientific standards and appears to have no meaningful content. Jackiw defended the thesis. [12], In December 2004, the Bogdanovs sued Ciel et Espace for defamation over the publication of a critical article entitled "The Mystification of the Bogdanovs". [2][32] Nobel laureate Georges Charpak later stated on a French talk show that the Bogdanovs' presence in the scientific community was "nonexistent".[33][15]. "[24] The New York Times reported that the physicists David Gross, Carlo Rovelli, and Lee Smolin considered the Bogdanoff papers nonsensical. released before the COVID-19 pandemic back in January, was . [10], The brothers began careers in television, hosting several popular programs on science and science fiction. [a] Moreover, Die Zeit quoted Nicolai as saying that had the paper reached his desk, he would have immediately rejected it. Igor Bogdanoff, the French TV star known for his eccentric personality and appearance, has died at 72. Paris Controversial French TV stars and famous twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff were inseparable in life, and in death.They had refused to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, believing . 72, sadly passed away on Tuesday after a battle with Covid-19. [36] In September 2006, the case was dismissed after the Bogdanoffs missed court deadlines; they were ordered to pay 2,500 to the magazine's publisher to cover its legal costs. Grichka Bogdanoff, who according to a popular crypto meme was - like his brother Igor - capable of changing the market with a single phone call, has died at the age of 72 following a period of illness. She tried to sustain her episodic relationship with Hayes after her divorce and his return to the United States, but declined his offer to legally adopt and raise their daughter, Maria, who became Igor and Grichka's mother. "[2] As he told The Chronicle of Higher Education, Sternheimer did not consider himself an expert in all the topics Grichka Bogdanov included in his thesis, but judged that those portions within his specialty were PhD-quality work. [34][35], On December 30, 2004, the Bogdanoffs sued Ciel et Espace for defamation over the publication of a critical article titled "The Mystification of the Bogdanoffs". The brothers became a running gag in crypto following a series of parody videos in 2018 by the YouTube channel Bizonacci, which portrayed the Bogdanoffs as omnipotent market actors who conspire against an average crypto trader. On Tuesday, December 28, Grichka Bogdanoff, one of the two renowned Bogdanoff twins, passed away at the age of 72. Sokal's original aim had been to test the effects of the intellectual trend he called, "for want of a better term, postmodernism". ; French Physicists' Cosmic Theory Creates a Big Bang of Its Own", "The Emperor's New Science: French TV Stars Rock the World of Theoretical Physics", "Ideas & Trends: In Theory, It's True (Or Not)", "France's Bogdanoff TV twins die of Covid six days apart", "INSPIRE-HEP citation information for Bogdanov papers", "Theses spark twin dilemma for physicists", "Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff were identical twin brothers born to Maria "Maya" Dolores Franzyska Kolowrat-Krakowsk (19261982), of Bohemian and Polish descent, and Yuri Mikhalovitch Bogdanoff (19282012),[2] an itinerant Russian farm worker, later a painter. ), Technically, their paper connects too many things. "[40] This was not confirmed officially by HKU and no Prof. Yang existed on the roster of the HKU physics department; nor did the university have an "International Institute of Mathematical Physics". On 4chan, the brothers are associated with a list of grandiose conspiracy theories, which are often listed whenever someone asks for a "quick rundown" on the twins. [12] In September 2006, the case was dismissed after the Bogdanovs missed court deadlines; they were ordered to pay 2,500 euros to the magazine's publisher to cover its legal costs. Both brothers passed following complications from Covid-19, emulating each other once more in death, as they did so often in life. During the twins' early days, their mother allegedly translates for German forces occupying the region. The television presenter passed away just days after his identical twin, Grichka. [14] Using an e-mail address at the domain th-phys.edu.hk, an individual publishing under this name wrote to a number of individuals and on the Internet to defend the Bogdanov papers. [] Rarely have we seen a hollow work dressed with such sophistication"). "[12] After the publication of the article and the publicity surrounding the controversy, mathematician Greg Kuperberg posted to Usenet a statement written by the journal's senior publisher, Andrew Wray, and its co-editor, Hermann Nicolai. Now they look like crazy . Elsewhere, an added word demonstrated, according to Majid, that "Bogdanov does not understand his own draft results." They have the right to have their work recognized with a diploma, which is nothing much these days. [3] His advisors subsequently agreed to allow him to obtain a doctorate if he could publish three peer-reviewed journal articles. They explain that they have found proof that their father was the descendant of a prince, the right arm of Tsar Peter the Great", that "according to them, Youra was a young artist [] he would have followed 'a solid training as a painter as a free auditor at the Beaux-Arts'", and that "it was there, according to the twins, who love romance, that a "famous writer" met in Paris would have introduced Youra to their grandmother". Participants in the discussions were particularly unconvinced by a statement in the "Topological origin of inertia" paper that "whatever the orientation, the plane of oscillation of Foucault's pendulum is necessarily aligned with the initial singularity marking the origin of physical space." Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff became famous in the 1980s after hosting sci-fi shows on French TV, and became well known for their dramatic plastic surgery in recent years, despite denying they had . [51], Igor Bogdanoff had six children, four from his first marriage and two from his second. Igor Bogdanoff has passed away at 72, just six days after the death of twin brother Grichka. Picture: Valery HACHE / AFP Igor (R) and Grichka Bogdanoff (L) were stars in their native France. Replying on sci.physics.research,[72] Sokal referred readers to his follow-up essay,[73] in which he notes "the mere fact of publication of my parody" only proved that the editors of one particular journaland a "rather marginal" one at thathad applied a lax intellectual standard. Grichka Bogdanoff who is known as one of the Bogdanoff twins has passed away at the age of 72. [54], In 2014, the Bogdanovs sued the weekly magazine Marianne for defamation, on account of reporting the magazine had published in 2010[55] which had brought the CNRS report to light. The death of Igor Bogdanoff, 72, was confirmed on Monday evening by his lawyer Edouard de Lamaze, as well as his agent. In 2002, after publishing the requisite articles, Igor was given a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Burgundy. The main result of this paper is that this thermodynamic equilibrium should be a KMS state. The much-anticipated New York Times article on the Bogdanov scandal has appeared. Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? The online discussion was quickly followed by media attention. [36][37] There was never a substantive ruling on whether or not the Bogdanoffs had been defamed. Described in The New York Times as . "[20][21], Copies of the email reached American mathematical physicist John C. Baez, and on 23 October he created a discussion thread about the Bogdanoffs' work on the Usenet newsgroup sci.physics.research, titled "Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? [10] The story spread in public media, prompting Niedermaier to offer an apology to the Bogdanovs, admitting that he had not read the papers firsthand. Grichka Bogdanoff and Igor Bogdanoff (L-R) photographed in Paris, France in November 2019. Majid said that the French version of his report on Grichka's thesis was "an unauthorized translation partially invented by the Bogdanovs." Igor died Monday and Grichka on December 28. They're kind of famous for presenting scientific information in a science fiction way, even publishing entire advanced physics essays of quite literally nonsense and getting them . But before his tragic death, he and his brother Igor were well-known for their eccentric personalities . 05/19/10 07:41PM. Yet this rephrasing is itself equivalent to the statement, If this was the essence of the statement, Baez noted, it cannot be very useful in "explaining the origin of inertia".[27]. But if one accepts that the papers about these difficult questions don't have to be just a well-defined science but maybe also a bit of inspiring art, the brothers have done a pretty good job, I think. The police detained and interrogated Riazuelo. The twin celebrities and scientists first rose to fame as co-hosts of the television show 'Temps X', which blended science and science . Igor followed him on Monday. The controversy began in 2002, with an allegation that the twins, popular celebrities in France for hosting science-themed TV shows, had obtained PhDs with nonsensical work. [3], Although the Bogdanoff twins claimed to be descended paternally from a noble Muslim Tatar family traceable to the beginning of the 17th century (originally from Penza, one of whose mirzas converted to Orthodox Christianity, and was rewarded with the title of prince by a decree from Tsar Feodor III; the mirza did not exercise this right, and the title of "Prince Bogdanoff" was lost by the end of the 19th century),[5][6][citation needed] there is scant evidence for that. La Dpche du Midi prsente ses condolances la famille (Youra Bogdanof)". The weekly was eventually ordered to pay 64,000 euros in damages, a quantity less than the Bogdanovs had originally demanded (in excess of 800,000 euros each). On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The BBC said the un (According to The New York Times, Sokal was "almost disappointed" that the Bogdanovs had not attempted a hoax after his own style. [56] The Bogdanovs also sued the CNRS for 1.2 million euros in damages, claiming that the CNRS report had "port atteinte leur honneur, leur rputation et leur crdit" ("undermined their honor, reputation and credit") and calling the report committee a "Stasi scientifique", but a tribunal ruled against them in 2015 and ordered them to pay 2,000 euros. "[11][6] Copies of the email reached American mathematical physicist John Baez, and on 23 October he created a discussion thread about the Bogdanovs' work on the Usenet newsgroup sci.physics.research, titled "Physics bitten by reverse Alan Sokal hoax? [3] Soon after, Freidel denied writing any such remarks, telling the press that he had forwarded a message containing that text to a friend. Bogdanoff Twins' before and after surgery pictures look drastically different, the two brothers have changed their faces with plastic surgery and their followers are saying their surgery is a disaster. [] Rarement aura-t-on vu un travail creux habill avec une telle sophistication" ("These theses have no scientific value. "[44] Later, Majid claimed in a Usenet post that, in an addendum to Avant Le Big Bang, Grichka intentionally misquoted Majid's opinion on the way this interview had been transcribed. [20], The paper in question was, however, not officially withdrawn by the journal. Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, now 60, had chin implants . That's what happened to the Bogdanoff twins. This almost goes without saying; for a quantum system, the KMS condition is just the concrete definition of thermodynamic equilibrium. The Bogdanoff Brothers. In a statement released by his agent, the family . Overbye's article in The New York Times voiced this opinion,[2] for example, as did Declan Butler's piece in Nature. Frank Wilczek, who edited Annals of Physics (and who would later share the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics), told the press that the scandal motivated him to correct the journal's slipping standards, partly by assigning more reviewing duties to the editorial board.[3]. He posted an unpublished version of Grichka Bogdanov's PhD thesis on his personal website, along with his critical analysis. THE BOGDANOFF TWINS (DUMP IT) Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff's personalities and appearance have served as source material for all kinds of memes long before they were adopted by the crypto community. Life before and after surgery as Grichka dies aged 72. In December 2016, 4chan users ironically suggested the . Twin French TV stars die after contracting COVID-19 00:30 Paris Controversial French TV stars and famous twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff were inseparable in life, and in death. [16], Grichka Bogdanoff received a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of Burgundy (Dijon) in 1999. Pot-Pourri from Igor & Grichka Bogdanov's Before the Big Bang, A small journey in the Bogdanoff universe, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bogdanov_affair&oldid=1123916416, This page was last edited on 26 November 2022, at 11:18. Overbye wrote that Jackiw was intrigued by the thesis, although it contained many points he did not understand. When they were young they were the heart-throbs of France's small screen but after many rounds of plastic surgery and botox, the controversial Bogdanoff twins came to be considered 'freakish' by many. One point noted by Schreiber, Oeckl and the CNRS report is the claim, "A theory is topological if (the, (entry in the French academic library directory), Last edited on 26 November 2022, at 11:18, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Polmique autour des travaux des frres Bogdanov, List of topics characterized as pseudoscience, "L't scientifique des frres Bogdanoff", "Are They a) Geniuses or b) Jokers? The twins, now aged in their 60s, were best known in the late 1970s as the classically handsome hosts of French science-fiction series Temps X ( Time X ). According to Sternheimer, the twins viewed themselves as "the Einstein brothers" and had a propensity to voice vague, "impressionistic" statements; he considered guiding their efforts "like teaching My Fair Lady to speak with an Oxford accent. [11][19], In October 2002, the Bogdanoffs released an email containing apparently supportive statements by Laurent Freidel, then a visiting professor at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. referees give opinions; the real peer review begins after a paper is published.[67]. [12], Suspicions were consequently raised that Professor L. 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Drs Igor and Grichka Bogdanov, French mathematical physicists and twins, create stir in physics world with novel and highly speculative theory about what happened before Big Bang; scientists . "[3], At the start of the controversy in the moderated group sci.physics.research, Igor Bogdanov denied that their published papers were a hoax,[16] but when asked precise questions from physicists Steve Carlip and John Baez regarding mathematical details in the papers, failed to convince any other participants that these papers had any real scientific value. Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff are fraternal twin brothers born to Yuri Mikhalovitch Osten-Sacken-Bogdanoff (1928-2012), a Russian painter of Tatar origin and descent from a line of Prince Bogdanoff, and to Maria Maya Dolores Franzyska Kolowrat-Krakowsk (1926-1982). Regarding the Bogdanov publications, physicist Steve Carlip remarked: Referees are volunteers, who as a whole put in a great deal of work for no credit, no money, and little or no recognition, for the good of the community. Posted in . Similarly, Richard Monastersky, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, observed, "There is one wayfor physicists to measure the importance of the Bogdanovs' work. [9] That journal ceased publication in 2005. She "chased him away", leading him to be absent from his sons' lives until they were ten years old, and subsequently divorced from Maya. Having found a copy of one of the relevant papers available online, I posted that "the referee clearly didn't even glance at it." "[8] The New York Times reported that the physicists David Gross, Carlo Rovelli and Lee Smolin considered the Bogdanov papers nonsensical. Though they have a strange aura and physical appearance that gets them a lot of media attention, they are intellectuals with doctorate degrees in science. Eventually, the controversy attracted mainstream media attention, opening new avenues for physicists' comments to be disseminated. Humans who deeply . Alas, I was completely mistaken. Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff are fraternal twin brothers who are famous French TV producers and scientific essayists. [59] Jovanovi later became embroiled in controversy and resigned his post when it was revealed that he had not obtained a PhD at the London School of Economics as he had claimed. 126.89K. FRENCH star Grichka Bogdanoff, 72, sadly passed away on Tuesday after a battle with Covid-19. In 2010, The Sydney Morning Herald described the twins' cheekbones as "so high and bulbous as to appear to threaten their owners' vision", adding that the twins' appearance at the Cannes Film Festival had "caused a stir around the world". Critics cite examples from Avant Le Big Bang including a statement that the "golden number" (phi) is transcendental, an assumption that the limit of a decreasing sequence is always zero, and that the expansion of the Universe implies that the planets of the Solar System have grown farther apart. [12] The physicists commenting on Usenet found these claims and subsequent attempts at their explanation peculiar,[12][27][28] since the trajectory of a Foucault penduluma standard museum pieceis accurately predicted by classical mechanics. [2] Both of the brothers received the lowest passing grade of "honorable", which is seldom given, as Daniel Sternheimer told The New York Times science reporter Dennis Overbye. Their mother Maya Kolowrat Bogdanoff was a result of an affair between Austrian grandmother Bertha Kolowrat-Krakowsk and African American Tenor Roland Hayes in 1925. He came to trial and was convicted in March 2012. Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff are born to the nobility. [52] He married his second wife, Amlie de Bourbon-Parme, civilly in Paris on 1 October 2009 and religiously in Chambord two days later. The Bogdanovs then attributed the quoted passages to Freidel, who said, "I'm very upset about that because I have received e-mail from people in the community asking me why I've defended the Bogdanov brothers. Bogdanoff subsequently described this version as "dating from 1991 and too unfinished to be made public". 1 year ago. Le Monde quoted Alain Connes, recipient of the 1982 Fields Medal, as saying, "I didn't need long to convince myself that they're talking about things that they haven't mastered. Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff were identical twin brothers born to Maria "Maya" Dolores Franzyska Kolowrat-Krakowsk (1926-1982), of Bohemian and Polish descent, and Yuri Mikhalovitch Bogdanoff (1928-2012), [2] an itinerant Russian farm worker, later a painter. A pair of non-string theorists were able to get nonsensical papers generally not about string theory published in journals not generally used by string theorists. Eli Hawkins, acting as a referee on behalf of the Journal of Physics A, suggested rejecting one of the Bogdanovs' papers: "It is difficult to describe what is wrong in Section 4, since almost nothing is right. Raised in castle after scandalous affair. In April 2012, a group of 170 scientists published an open letter titled L'affaire Bogdanoff: Libert, Science et Justice, Des scientifiques revendiquent leur droit au blme (The Bogdanov Affair: Liberty, Science and Justice, scientists claim their right of critique). Schreiber concluded, Just to make sure: I do not think that any of the above is valid reasoning. The first was on December 29 and the second on January 3. . [] It would take up too much space to enumerate all the mistakes: indeed it is difficult to say where one error ends and the next begins. Igor Bogdanoff's family decided not to disclose the cause of his death (Image: Getty) The scientific language was just an appearance behind which hid incompetence and ignorance of even basic physics.[8]. One of the scientists who approved Igor Bogdanov's thesis, Roman Jackiw of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke to The New York Times reporter Dennis Overbye. Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, French twin brothers and TV presenters, are the embodiment of plastic surgeries gone TVwrong. Jackiw defended the thesis: All these were ideas that could possibly make sense. [40], In 2014, the Bogdanoffs sued the weekly magazine Marianne for defamation, on account of reporting the magazine had published in 2010[41] which had brought the CNRS report to light. The paper was discussed extensively at the annual Editorial Board meeting and there was general agreement that it should not have been published. It would be too good if all these ideas and (correct) formulae were necessary for a justification of a working solution to the initial singularity problem. bogdanoff twins tv show crew dies. A number of English Wikipedia users, including Igor Bogdanov himself, were explicitly named in this ban. They had no connection to, or involvement with, their father's family, and were raised by their maternal grandmother, Countess Bertha Kolowrat-Krakowsk (18901982),[3] in her castle in southern France. French twins Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff have both passed away from Covid complications. The University of Burgundy awarded Igor Bogdanoff a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 2002. Prior to the controversy, the reports on the Bogdanov theses and most of the journal referees' reports spoke favorably of their work, describing it as original and containing interesting ideas. 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