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. The Bogdanoffs' background in entertainment lent some plausibility to the idea that they were attempting a deliberate hoax, but Igor Bogdanoff quickly denied the accusation. 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". [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]. 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. Igor followed him on Monday. (According to The New York Times, Sokal was "almost disappointed" that the Bogdanovs had not attempted a hoax after his own style. The Bogdanov brothers were born in 1949 in the small village of Saint-Lary, in the Gascony region of southwest France. French twins Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff have both passed away from Covid complications. "[14], Others compared the quality of the Bogdanov papers with that seen over a wider arena. [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. A "draft [mathematical] construction" became "la premire construction [mathmatique]" ("the first [mathematical] construction"). Igor and Grichka Yourievitch Bogdanoff are French twin brothers who are TV presenters, producers, and scientific essayists. [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. Bogdanoff subsequently described this version as "dating from 1991 and too unfinished to be made public". Grichka Bogdanoff who is known as one of the Bogdanoff twins has passed away at the age of 72. [2] He originally applied for a degree in physics, but was instead given one in mathematics, and was first required to significantly rewrite his thesis, de-emphasizing the physics content. [11] Posters on blogs and Usenet used the affair to criticize the present status of string theory; for the same reason, Peter Woit devoted a chapter of Not Even Wrong, a book emphatically critical of string theory, to the affair. 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." Twins meet after a 39-year separation. 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. The twins came from European nobility - but their relatives had their fair share of scandal. [14][26] However, Igor Bogdanov has maintained that Professor Yang is a real mathematical physicist with expertise in KMS theory, a friend of his, and that he was posting anonymously from Igor's apartment. News of Bogdanoff's death comes just days after his twin brother, Grichka, passed away. The siblings - who were raised by their maternal grandmother in her castle in southern France - reportedly underwent their first round of plastic surgery in the 1990s. With revisions I expect the paper to be suitable for publication. In addition, the paper claimed, the Foucault pendulum experiment "cannot be explained satisfactorily in either classical or relativistic mechanics". FRENCH star Grichka Bogdanoff, 72, sadly passed away on Tuesday after a battle with Covid-19. [47], The Bogdanoff twins, who denied having undergone plastic surgery,[48] became known for their prominent cheekbones and chins. [44][46], At the beginning of 2004, Igor Bogdanov began to post on French Usenet physics groups and Internet forums, continuing the pattern of behavior seen on sci.physics.research. [20] Niedermaier suggested that the Bogdanoffs' Ph.D. theses and papers were "spoof[s]", created by throwing together instances of theoretical-physics jargon, including terminology from string theory: "The abstracts are delightfully meaningless combinations of buzzwords which apparently have been taken seriously. "[11] Woit later devoted a chapter of his book Not Even Wrong (2006) to the Bogdanov affair.[26]. [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. "I say it solemnly, we have never used it," Grichka Bogdanoff said in an interview with Tl-Loisirs 2017. [] 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. [70] The physicist John Baez compared the two events in his October 2002 post to the sci.physics.research newsgroup. The two have been involved in a number of controversies, most notably the Bogdanov affair, however, their personalities, family origins, and physical appearances are often more than enough fodder for Internet forums.. I am writing this just to point out what I think are the central 'ideas' the authors had when writing their articles and how this led them to their conclusions.[30]. "[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. "[7] Journalist and documentary filmmaker Maud Guillaumin, author of Le mystre Bogdanoff (L'Archipel, 2019), comprehensively examined the twins' account, noting it to comprise "approximations and historical inaccuracies"; she found that Yuri Bogdanoff had gone to Spain as a young man, and, unable to return to the USSR as he would have been considered a spy and imprisoned, went to France and began "a life of wandering from farm to Pyrenean farm" before, in 1948 aged 21, arriving at the castle of his future mother-in-law, "renowned in the Gers for employing Slavs". The incident prompted criticism of the Bogdanovs' approach to science popularization, led to a number of lawsuits, and provoked reflection among physicists as to how and why the peer review system can fail. [52] He married his second wife, Amlie de Bourbon-Parme, civilly in Paris on 1 October 2009 and religiously in Chambord two days later. themselves qualified as "extraterrestrials". [60] This scandal, combined with the presence of the Bogdanovs, contributed to an atmosphere of controversy surrounding Megatrend. [2][3] In justifying the conferring of doctoral degrees to the Bogdanovs, Sternheimer told the Times, "These guys worked for 10 years without pay. Igor and Grichka, 71, look unrecognisable nowadays - compared to when they first found fame on French television back in the 1970s. [15], In October 2004, a journalist from Ciel et Espace interviewed Shahn Majid of Queen Mary, University of London about his report on Grichka Bogdanov's thesis. (The Bogdanov Equation: The Secret of the Origin of the Universe? [52] But in passing judgement the court stated that the scientist had "lacked prudence", given "the fame of the plaintiff". The Bogdanov affair was an academic dispute regarding the legitimacy of a series of theoretical physics papers written by French twins Igor and Grichka Bogdanov (alternatively spelled Bogdanoff). Posted in . 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. In 2010, the Sydney Morning Herald described the twins' cheekbones as "so high and bulbous as . "[2], In 2001 and 2002 the brothers published five papers in peer-reviewed physics journals, including Annals of Physics and Classical and Quantum Gravity. The Bogdanoff brothers published a number of works in science fiction, philosophy and popular science. In May 2001, the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (CQG) reviewed an article authored by Igor and Grichka Bogdanov, titled "Topological theory of the initial singularity of spacetime". But before his tragic death, he and his brother Igor were well-known for their eccentric personalities . I couldn't believe it. [2][3][4] The first of these, Temps X (Time X), ran from 1979 to 1989. French physicists, authors and TV presenters. [29][30], Robert Oeckl's official MathSciNet review of "Topological field theory of the initial singularity of spacetime" 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. [3][8] Around the same time, Igor Bogdanov failed the defense of his thesis. 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 . Sometimes a referee makes a mistake. see the stunning before and after photos here! Described in The New York Times as . Look at any before and after photos to see that she has undergone an extensive amount of . Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff were French celebrities best known for producing the science fiction television series Temps X and their involvement in a theoretical physics dispute known as the Bogdanoff affair. ADS. 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. [49] According to former education minister Luc Ferry, a friend of the brothers, they had both received botox injections for cosmetic treatment. "[12][22] Baez was comparing the Bogdanoffs' publications to the 1996 Sokal affair, in which physicist Alan Sokal successfully submitted an intentionally nonsensical paper to a cultural studies journal in order to criticize that field's lax standards for discussing science. [53], The verdict outraged many scientists, who felt that the police and courts should have no say in a discussion of the scientific merits of a piece of work. Now they look like crazy . The police detained and interrogated Riazuelo. [45], Additionally, in the same addendum, a critical analysis of their work made by Urs Schreiber, and affirmed by the Bogdanovs as "very accurate", was included with the exception of the concluding remark "Just to make sure: I do not think that any of the above is valid reasoning", thus inverting the meaning from criticism into ostensible support. This is surely an indictment of something, but its relevance to string theory is marginal at best.[65]. One episode after the heyday of the affair involved the participation of an unidentified "Professor Yang". 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. Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, Twins in an Uneasy Spotlight, Die at 72. . The Bogdanoffs quickly became a popular discussion topic, with most respondents agreeing that the papers were flawed. [3] His advisors subsequently agreed to allow him to obtain a doctorate if he could publish three peer-reviewed journal articles. released before the COVID-19 pandemic back in January, was . Rather than suing Riazuelo for defamation, Bogdanoff filed a criminal complaint of copyright (droit d'auteur) violation against him in May 2011. They were involved in a number of controversies, most notably the Bogdanov affair, which brought to light the fact that the brothers had written nonsensical advanced physics papers that were nonetheless published in reputable scientific journals. Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff are born to the nobility. 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. [15], In 2002, the Bogdanoffs launched a new weekly television show, Rayons X (X Rays), on the French public channel France 2. In a statement shared by his agent, the family of the eccentric French TV personality had died on Tuesday (28 December) surrounded by family. One of the scientists who approved Igor Bogdanoff's thesis, Roman Jackiw of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke to The New York Times reporter Dennis Overbye. It is the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology which is located in Clear Water Bay, not Hong Kong University (HKU), whose main campus is located in the Mid-Levels of Hong Kong Island. [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. The television presenter passed away just days after his identical twin, Grichka. They were both (could still be, I dunno) TV presenters and producers, and scientific essayists. The scientific language was just an appearance behind which hid incompetence and ignorance of even basic physics.[8]. However, 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. According to a popular crypto meme, the Bogdanoff brothers were capable of changing markets with a single phone call. One of the referees' reports stated that the article was "Sound, original, and of interest. [11][12][13] The first of these, Temps X (Time X), ran from 1979 to 1989[12][14] and introduced several British and American science-fiction series to the French public, including The Prisoner, Star Trek, and Doctor Who, in addition to featuring musical guests such as Jean-Michel Jarre. [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. Well, let's see. 72, sadly passed away on Tuesday after a battle with Covid-19. ), officially written in English by Lubo Motl and translated into French. Reddit. "[12] Jacques Distler voiced a similar opinion, proclaiming "The [Bogdanovs'] papers consist of buzzwords from various fields of mathematical physics, string theory and quantum gravity, strung together into syntactically correct, but semantically meaningless prose. A source close to the brothers told French outlet Le Monde that neither had been . He continued, "But the increasingly low standard of coherence in the whole field is what allowed them to think they were doing something sensible and to get it published. "[3] Before the controversy over their work arose, the scientific community had shown practically no interest in the Bogdanovs' papers; indeed, according to Stony Brook physics professor Jacobus Verbaarschot, who served on Igor Bogdanov's dissertation committee, without the hoax rumors "probably no one would have ever known about their articles. [3] In 1993, the brothers began work toward doctorates, first working under the mathematical physicist Mosh Flato[fr] of the University of Burgundy. The brothers - who were raised by their maternal grandmother in her . On Tuesday, December 28, Grichka Bogdanoff, one of the two renowned Bogdanoff twins, passed away at the age of 72. Did you know that the Bogdanoff twins rose to prominence hosting a French science fiction series that repurposed footage from shows like Doctor Who and The T. Schreiber concluded, Just to make sure: I do not think that any of the above is valid reasoning. French TV star Igor Bogdanoff has died of Covid-19, six days after his twin brother Grichka died due to . Majid also described more than ten other modifications of meaning, each one biased towards "surestimation outrancire""outrageous over-estimation". [25], Both Baez and, later, Peter Woit noted that content was largely repeated from one Bogdanov paper to another.[12][26]. That's what happened to the Bogdanoff twins. 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 ). In 2002, after publishing the requisite articles, Igor was given a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Burgundy. [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. Comment. The statement read, in part, Regrettably, despite the best efforts, the refereeing process cannot be 100% effective. Urs Schreiber, then a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Hamburg, noted that the mention of the Foucault pendulum was at odds with the papers' general tone, since they generally relied upon more "modern terminology". [45] Jovanovi himself later became embroiled in controversy and resigned his post, when he was found out to not have obtained a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics as he had claimed. [25], The Chinese Journal of Physics published Igor Bogdanoff's "The KMS state of spacetime at the Planck scale", while Nuovo Cimento published "KMS space-time at the Planck scale". Grichka died on 28 December,[55] and Igor died six days later, on 3 January 2022. They are published authors who are able to communicate with . [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. "[3] As of October2018[update], the Bogdanovs' most recent paper was "Thermal Equilibrium and KMS Condition at the Planck Scale", which was submitted to the Chinese Annals of Mathematics in 2001 and appeared in 2003. 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. In August 2004, they presented a 90-minute special cosmology program in which they introduced their theory among other cosmological scenarios. 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 . Igor Yourievitch Bogdanoff and Grichka Yourievitch Bogdanoff who since the 1970s, the twin brothers have presented numerous issues in science . 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. Some corrections were requested. Read more: [5 accurate crypto trader memes to help navigate this hellscape industry]But Igor and Grichka became the center of academic controversy starting in 2002. Jackiw defended the thesis: All these were ideas that could possibly make sense. 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. The University of Burgundy awarded Igor Bogdanoff a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 2002. According to . [11] Both brothers received the lowest passing grade of "honorable". Twin brothers who were once boyishly handsome TV stars in France have undergone so much plastic surgery that they're nearly unrecognizable. I gor and Grichka Bogdanoff, the most eccentric twins made famous on French television, died six days apart of Covid, two years into the coronavirus pandemic.Grichka died first, on 28 December . French TV star Igor Bogdanoff has died at the age of 72. Bertha Kolowrat-Krakowsk belonged to the noble Kolowrat family of Bohemia and was married to Count Hieronymus Colloredo-Mannsfeld (18701942), a member of the Austrian princely house of Colloredo-Mannsfeld. Guillaumin's interview with the Bogdanoff twins' godmother, Monique David, contradicted their romantic account, and established that the twins' mother, Maya, was pregnant with them at the time of her marriage to Yuri Bogdanoff, whom the countess considered an unworthy match for her daughter. [53], The Bogdanoff twins were both hospitalized, at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris,[54] in critical condition on 15 December 2021, after contracting COVID-19. [39][57], In 2005, the Bogdanovs became professors at Megatrend University in Belgrade where they were appointed Chairs of Cosmology and said to direct the Megatrend Laboratory of Cosmology. [8][9], Besides French, they spoke German, Russian, and English. Much mystery surrounds the biography of the twins, who have encountered numerous legal problems. While the papers were full of rather abstruse prose about a wide variety of technical areas, it was easy to identify outright nonsense in the areas about which I had some expertise. [8][18] These news stories included commentary by physicists. Though the family of her mother shuns her after engaging in an affair with an African-American musician. The country's most famous twins, Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, 72, have died of coronavirus five days apart at the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris. 1 min read. 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. "[19] The paper was accepted by the journal seven months later. 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