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Alexey Burov
At Fermilab, with a Möbius strip in the background
Born (1956-12-17) 17 December 1956 (age 69)
Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
CitizenshipSoviet Union → Russia → United States
EducationNovosibirsk State University; Candidate of Sciences in physics and mathematics (equivalent to a PhD)
AwardsFellow of the American Physical Society; APS Outstanding Referee; FQXi prize for the philosophical concept of the Pythagorean Universe
Scientific career
FieldsAccelerator physics
WorkplacesFermilab
Yaroslav Derbenev[1]
Websitepythagoreanuniverse.com

Alexey Vladimirovich Burov (born 17 December 1956, Novosibirsk) is a Russian and American theoretical physicist and philosopher, a specialist in the physics of charged-particle beams, and a senior scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States. Together with his son Lev, he is the author of the philosophical concept of the “Pythagorean Universe”[2][3] and of the Pythagorean physico-theological argument.

Physics

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Burov graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Novosibirsk State University in 1980. In 1990 he received the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences from the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, specializing in 01.04.20, the physics of charged-particle beams.[4] Since 1997, he has worked at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States. From 2011 to 2013 he was on a long-term visit at CERN in Switzerland. He has published more than 180 papers on the physics of charged-particle beams in accelerators.[5] Since 2017, he has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society;[6] the citation recognized his pioneering theoretical work on the dynamics of beams with strong space charge. Since 2024, he has been an APS Outstanding Referee.[7]

Main works

Alexey Burov at CERN

Burov was one of the leading participants in the pioneering project on relativistic electron cooling of antiprotons. The project was fully implemented and substantially increased the luminosity of the Tevatron collider.[8][9][10]

He was one of the authors of the idea of universal stabilization of collective beam instabilities by means of an electron lens. The method was proposed for the next generation of colliders.[11][12]

He is the author of a theory of the transverse dynamics of beams with strong space charge. The theory includes a description of modes, the discovery of convective instabilities, the discovery of the role of the halo, an account of feedback capabilities, and the determination of instability thresholds.[13][14][15][16][17]

He is the author of the Nested Head-Tail algorithm for calculating the transverse collective stability of an accelerated beam, which has been applied to proton beams in CERN's Large Hadron Collider.[18][19]

He is the author of a theory of the transverse stability of two bunched beams traveling in the same direction.[20]

He was one of the authors of a theorem concerning the inverse relationship between efficiency and beam stability in plasma acceleration.[21]

He was one of the authors of a theory of the longitudinal collective dynamics of bunched beams taking space charge into account.[22]

He is the author of the concept of the stability inverse problem in beam dynamics, including the idea of detailed diagnostics of beam phase density.[23]

Philosophy

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Burov is the author of numerous works on metaphysics, epistemology, and the history and philosophy of science, especially mathematical physics, published in English- and Russian-language editions. In 2017, he received a prize from the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi.org) for a work co-authored with his son Lev that presented the concept of the Pythagorean Universe and the associated Pythagorean argument for the intelligent design of the Universe. This publication was noted by the prominent theologian William Lane Craig, who wrote that “an account of human cognitive capacities does nothing to explain why the physical phenomena are mathematically describable, a concern that drives Burov and Burov, ‘Pythagorean Universe’.”[24] These ideas were developed further in Alexey and Lev's paper “The Metaphysical Status of Physical Laws” at the 17th conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, where they led a panel entitled “Platonism and Modern Physics”.[3][25] The significance of Pythagorean faith, another concept developed by Alexey and Lev, was emphasized in Alexey Burov and Alexei Tsvelik's paper “The Pythagorean Argument of the Grand Design” at a congress dedicated to the memory of Stanley Jaki.[26] This physico-theological argument is presented in greatest detail in the series of papers “The Pythagorean Argument and Its Critique”, published by the philosophy journal Ideas and Ideals.[27] Participants in a round-table discussion of this series included Mikhail Arkadiev [ru], Andrii Baumeister (moderator), Alexander Bobylev, Igor Dmitriev, Igor Dymo, Konstantin Zuev, Andrei Ivanchenko, Kirill Kopeikin [ru], Irina Rybakova, and Fr. Mikhail Aksenov-Meerson [ru].

For a number of years, Burov led the English-language Fermilab philosophy club, which he organized,[28] and which hosted numerous talks on the philosophy of science and other subjects. Since January 2022, he has hosted the weekly program “Science and Religion: Conflict, Neutrality, or Alliance?” on the Russian-language Chicago radio station Narodnaya Volna.[29][30] His views on a wide range of philosophical questions are presented most extensively in his literary-philosophical correspondence with the writer Gennady Prashkevich [ru], regularly published by the magazine Druzhba Narodov,[31] and included in part in the book Like a Mustard Seed (G. Prashkevich and A. Burov, Moscow: TV Izdatelskie Tekhnologii/RUGRAM, 2022, 252 pp.). Many of Burov's publications can be found in the pages of Lebed, the oldest Russian-language almanac,[32] as well as in the popular-science magazine Granit Nauki.[33] Burov is one of the organizers and principal participants of the Chicago Philosophy Forum.[34][35]

Burov's channel[36] contains many of his conversations with prominent Russian- and English-speaking intellectuals, philosophers, historians, and religious apologists: Mikhail Arkadiev, M. Abakumov, Oleksii Arestovych, Andrii Baumeister, A. Bobylev, Andrey Zubov, William Lane Craig, S. Lyubarsky, Mikhail Sergeev [ru], Hugh Ross, Alexei Tsvelik, Pavel Shchelin, and Mikhail Epstein.

Pythagorean Universe

The concept of the “Pythagorean Universe”[37] was formulated by Alexey and Lev Burov as a substantial strengthening of the anthropic principle:

“The Universe is special not only because it is inhabited by living and thinking beings, but also because it can be theorized by means of elegant mathematical forms that are at once mathematically simple and extraordinarily rich in consequences. To allow for the existence of life and consciousness, the mathematical structure of the laws must be sufficiently complex, opening the possibility for diverse assemblages of material structures to arise. On the other hand, the laws must be simple enough to be discovered by the thinking beings that emerge. To satisfy both conditions, the laws must fall precisely within this minimax of complexity. The laws of nature are finely and precisely tuned not only with respect to the anthropic principle, but also with respect to their discoverability... Thus, the only Universe known to us is fine-tuned in accordance with what may be called the principle of cosmic knowability: its laws are purposefully selected so that it may be observed cosmically. It may even be that our laws belong to the simplest mathematical structure that permits our kind of life, or any kind of life capable of developing thought. Such a special Universe deserves a corresponding term, and we see no better choice than to call it Pythagorean, in honor of the first prophet of mathematical knowledge, who introduced into usage such important words as cosmos (the beauty of order), philosophy (the love of wisdom), and theory (contemplation).”

Pythagorean faith

According to the Burovs, the idea of the profound mathematization of nature emerged historically as a synthesis of two principles, the Pythagorean-Platonic and the Biblical. The former established the value of mathematics and the intuition of the fundamental role of numbers, while the latter held that the material world created by God is good and worthy of knowledge, that such knowledge is possible for the human being created in God's image and likeness, and that it possesses the highest value as knowledge of the Heavenly Father's design.[3] The Burovs call the distinctive Christian Platonism responsible for the formation of mathematical physics “Pythagorean faith”. The role of Pythagorean faith in fundamental physical discoveries was demonstrated in the second paper of the “Pythagorean cycle” by A. Burov and A. Tsvelik.[38]

The Pythagorean argument for the intelligent design of the Universe

In “Genesis of a Pythagorean Universe”, the Burovs argue that the only reasonable hypothesis for the cause of the Universe's Pythagorean character is the assumption that the physical laws were purposefully selected by a higher agency—in other words, that the Universe was intelligently designed.[39] The Pythagorean argument was developed further in a series of papers by Burov and Tsvelik,[40] which advanced the thesis that the argument has two branches: an objective-logical branch, based on analysis of the highly unusual character of the physical laws, and a subjective-historical branch, based on the success of Pythagorean faith, the fulfillment of its hopes beyond the boldest expectations.[41]

“The justification of the assumption of intelligent design as the cause of such specific laws of nature, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the identification and interpretation of the Pythagorean credo and its elevation to the status of a ‘metaphysical working hypothesis’, together form the dual objective-subjective logical structure designated by the authors as the ‘Pythagorean argument’.”[41]

Definition of life

The Burovs propose a definition of life that combines its scientific and metaphysical aspects:[42]

“Life is a system of super-complex, accurately replicating molecular complexes—cells—that appear at a certain stage in the physical history of the Universe and then advance to the next level of complexity, integrated multicellular hierarchies and diverse organisms, eventually reaching an even higher stage: an interface with the mental world.”[42]

They note that in Roger Penrose's metaphysical diagram “Three Worlds, Three Mysteries”, life corresponds to the cone connecting the physical and mental worlds.

Definition of physics

Alexey Burov defines physics as the cognition of matter through the search for its mathematically elegant axioms.[43]

References

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  1. ↑ Alexey Vladimirovich Burov: my biography Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Genesis of a Pythagorean Universe Archived 5 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Burov and L. Burov. Authorized translation by I. Rybakova, Metaphysics, No. 3 (53), 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 “The Metaphysical Status of Physical Laws” Archived 5 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. V. Burov and L. A. Burov, authorized translation by I. A. Rybakova, Metaphysics, No. 2 (48), pp. 142–160, 2023.
  4. ↑ Bunch lengthening and self-focusing Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, Alexey Vladimirovich Burov, dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, specialty 01.04.20, Institute of Nuclear Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 1990, 101 pp.
  5. ↑ Alexey V. Burov Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine at INSPIRE-HEP.
  6. ↑ APS fellows from 2011 to the present.
  7. ↑ APS Outstanding Referees Archived 1 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ↑ Optical principles of beam transport for relativistic electron cooling Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Burov, S. Nagaitsev, A. Shemyakin, and Y. Derbenev, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 3, 094002.
  9. ↑ Circular modes, beam adapters, and their applications in beam optics Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, Alexey Burov, Sergei Nagaitsev, and Yaroslav Derbenev, Phys. Rev. E 66, 016503.
  10. ↑ Experimental demonstration of relativistic electron cooling Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, Sergei Nagaitsev, Daniel Broemmelsiek, Alexey Burov, Kermit Carlson, Consolato Gattuso, Martin Hu, Thomas Kroc, Lionel Prost, Stanley Pruss, Mary Sutherland, Charles W. Schmidt, Alexander Shemyakin, Vitali Tupikov, Arden Warner, Grigory Kazakevich, and Sergei Seletskiy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044801.
  11. ↑ Transverse beam stability with an “electron lens” Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Burov, V. Danilov, and Vladimir Shiltsev, Phys. Rev. E 59, 3605.
  12. ↑ Landau damping of beam instabilities by electron lenses Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, Vladimir Shiltsev, Y. Alexahin, A. Burov, and A. Valishev, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 134802.
  13. ↑ Transverse instabilities of a coasting beam with space charge Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Burov and V. Lebedev, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 12, 034201.
  14. ↑ Head-tail modes for strong space charge Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Burov, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 12, 044202.
  15. ↑ Simulation of transverse modes with their intrinsic Landau damping for beams with space charge Archived 9 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, Alexandru Macridin, Alexey Burov, Eric Stern, James Amundson, and Panagiotis Spentzouris, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 18, 074401.
  16. ↑ Convective instabilities of bunched beams with space charge Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Burov, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 22, 034202.
  17. ↑ Space charge effects for collective instabilities in circular machines Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, Alexey Burov, The European Physical Journal Plus, volume 137, article 624 (2022).
  18. ↑ Nested head-tail Vlasov solver Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Burov, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 17, 021007.
  19. ↑ Efficiency of feedbacks for suppression of transverse instabilities of bunched beams Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, Alexey Burov, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 19, 084402.
  20. ↑ Coupled-beam and coupled-bunch instabilities Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Burov, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 21, 114401.
  21. ↑ Efficiency-instability relation for plasma accelerators Archived 6 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, V. Lebedev, A. Burov, and S. Nagaitsev, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 20, 121301.
  22. ↑ Longitudinal modes of bunched beams with weak space charge, Alexey Burov, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 24, 064401.
  23. ↑ Stability inverse problem in beam dynamics, Alexey Burov, Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 26, 082801.
  24. ↑ Craig, William Lane. Systematic Philosophical Theology, Volume 2b: On God: Excursus on Natural Theology, on the Trinity, p. 149, Kindle edition.
  25. ↑ The Metaphysical Status of Physical Laws Archived 5 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, original paper by A. Burov and L. Burov.
  26. ↑ “The Pythagorean Argument of the Grand Design” Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Burov and A. Tsvelik, presentation at the congress in memory of Stanley Jaki.
  27. ↑ The Pythagorean argument for the intelligent design of the Universe and its critique Archived 24 June 2024 at the Wayback Machine, a series of five papers by Alexey Burov and Alexei Tsvelik.
  28. ↑ Fermi Society of Philosophy Archived 5 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine.
  29. ↑ Chicago radio station Narodnaya Volna Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine.
  30. ↑ “Science and Religion: Conflict, Neutrality, or Alliance?” on Narodnaya Volna, Chicago Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, by Alexey Burov.
  31. ↑ Druzhba Narodov Archived 6 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, essays by Alexey Burov from various years.
  32. ↑ Lebed almanac Archived 6 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, selected publications by Alexey Burov.
  33. ↑ Granit Nauki, publications by Alexey Burov.
  34. ↑ Chicago Philosophy Forum Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, a club of philosophers in Chicago and the surrounding area.
  35. ↑ Granit Nauki Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Guzhva, “The Triumph of Thought, or Once Upon a Time in Chicago”.
  36. ↑ Pythagorean Universe Archived 13 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine.
  37. ↑ Genesis of a Pythagorean Universe Archived 5 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. V. Burov and L. A. Burov. Authorized translation by I. A. Rybakova, Metaphysics, No. 3 (53), 2024.
  38. ↑ The Pythagorean argument for the intelligent design of the Universe. Paper 2: The Pythagorean strategy of physics Archived 6 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Burov and A. Tsvelik, Ideas and Ideals, volume 15, No. 4, part 2.
  39. ↑ Trick or Truth? The Mysterious Connection Between Physics and Mathematics Archived 5 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, Springer International Publishing, 2016.
  40. ↑ Ideas and Ideals. Alexey Burov: publications Archived 24 June 2024 at the Wayback Machine.
  41. 1 2 The Pythagorean argument for the intelligent design of the Universe. Paper 1: The dual structure of the Pythagorean argument Archived 6 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Burov and A. Tsvelik, Ideas and Ideals, volume 15, No. 3, part 2.
  42. 1 2 The Metaphysical Status of Physical Laws, A. V. Burov and L. A. Burov, authorized translation by I. A. Rybakova, Metaphysics, No. 2 (48), 2023.
  43. ↑ Definition of physics Archived 5 July 2024 at the Wayback Machine, A. Burov, Scientific Israel – Technological Advantages, volume 25, Nos. 2–3, 2023A.
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