Biography:Frederick Kantor

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Frederick W. Kantor
Born (1942-07-19) 19 July 1942 (age 81)[citation needed]
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materColumbia University (1964)[1]
Known forInformation mechanics[2]
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsColumbia University

Frederick Kantor is an American physicist. He is known for his early work on digital physics,[3] originally coined by Kantor as information mechanics which described "previously thought dissimilar phenomena, such as the fine structure constant (on the scale of the very small) and cosmological red shift (on the scale of the very large)".[4]

Greg Bear cited Kantor's Information Mechanics as an inspiration for his 1990 novel Heads.[5] A Reddit editor named delverofsecrets created an Internet hoax involving an apparently chance meeting of Kantor and hundreds of Reddit followers at 6½ Avenue in Manhattan on July 12, 2012; the crowd was eventually dispersed by the New York Police Department.[6][7]

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