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| Occupation | Research engineer[1] |
Jean-Pierre Petit is a French engineer who authored the comic book series The Adventures of Archibald Higgins.
Early life
Jean-Pierre Petit obtained his engineer's degree in 1961 at the Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (Supaéro). Petit defended his doctoral thesis, Applications de la théorie cinétique des gaz à la physique des plasmas et à la dynamique des galaxies, at the University of Provence in 1972.[1]
Art
In topology, Petit worked with Bernard Morin on the torus and sphere eversion.[2] In the 1980s, he taught sculpture at the art school of Aix-en-Provence, where he designed a 5-foot diameter model of Boy's surface that was exhibited in the π room of the Palais de la Découverte for 25 years.[3]
Popular science
In 1979 Petit began writing "science comic books" published in French as Les Aventures d'Anselme Lanturlu and in English as The Adventures of Archibald Higgins, depicting a young character who explains hard scientific concepts with easy popular meaning and simple analogies. In 2005, Petit created a non-profit organization named Savoir Sans Frontières (tr. Knowledge Without Borders) that pays for their translation.[4]
Ummo link
In the 1990s, he stated on various French TV shows that some of his main scientific ideas were directly from his analysis of the Ummo case and documents, questioning their terrestrial origin. He said in 2018 that he experienced personal contacts with unidentified entities that may or not be related to the Ummo case, but that he believes are aliens.[5]
The Ummo affair is generally believed to have been a sophisticated hoax elaborated by a person without technical knowledge.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Petit, Jean-Pierre (10 March 1972). Applications de la théorie cinétique des gaz à la physique des plasmas et à la dynamique des galaxies [Applications of the kinetic theory of gases to plasma physics and galactic dynamics] (PDF) (Doctor of Science thesis) (in French). University of Provence. CNRS#6717.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Francis, G. K. (1980). "Drawing surfaces and their deformations: The tobacco pouch eversions of the sphere". Mathematical Modelling 5 (4): 273–281. doi:10.1016/0270-0255(80)90039-1. http://ayuba.fr/pdf/francis1980.pdf.
- ↑ Petit, J.-P (1985). Topo the World. Savoir Sans Frontières. http://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.com/JPP/telechargeables/English/Topo_the_world_eng.pdf.
- ↑ Petit, Jean Pierre. "SpiralConnect". http://spiralconnect.univ-lyon1.fr/webapp/website/website.html?id=2146947&pageId=387008.
- ↑ "Contacts Cosmiques avec Jean-Pierre Petit". NURÉA TV (in French). 25 October 2018. 134 minutes in. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 29 April 2019.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Corrales, Scott (2001). "PARANOIA - People Are Strange: Unusual UFO Cults". http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/ufocults.html.
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