Jean-Pierre Petit

Jean-Pierre Petit (born 5 April 1937, Choisy-le-Roi) is a French engineer retired from the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Jean-Pierre Petit
Born (1937-04-05) April 5, 1937
OccupationResearch engineer[1]

In the early 1980s, Petit authored the science comic book series The Adventures of Archibald Higgins.

He explored ufology, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and hypersonic military weapons like Aurora, Ayaks, Avangard.

Early life

Jean-Pierre Petit obtained his Engineer's degree in 1961 at French aeronautical engineering school Institut supérieur de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (Supaéro). In the 1960s, he worked in a French rocket engine test facility as a test engineer in the development of the first Submarine-launched Ballistic Missiles. In 1965 he was hired by the Marseille Institute of Fluid Mechanics (IMFM). He worked as a research engineer conducting research in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Petit defended his doctoral thesis University of Provence in 1972.[1]

Career

Research

He studied electromagnetic plasma propulsion and supersonic flight without shock wave through flow control by MHD force field in a new laboratory running with private funds, called LAMBDA λ (Laboratory for Applications of MHD in Bitemperature Discharges to Aerodynamics).[2]

In 1974, he officially stopped experimental research in MHD and started working at the Marseille Observatory. He was co-director of the Calculation Center at the University of Provence from 1977 to 1983, where he developed CAD software in 1978.

Art

In topology, Petit worked with Bernard Morin on the torus and sphere eversion.[3][4][5] 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.[6] He published its first parametric representation, where meridians are described with ellipses. François Apéry used this representation to build the implicit equation of Boy's surface.

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. The translated books are free to download from the organization's website and from the Université de Lyon website.[7]

Retirement

He retired from CNRS in April 2003.

In 2007, he founded a non-profit organization called UFO-Science.[8]

Claims and public matter of controversies

Ummo case and ufology

In the 1990s, he published several books about ufology and the Ummo case.[9][10][11]

He stated on various French TV shows that some of his main scientific ideas were directly inspired based upon his analysis of the Ummo documents, questioning their terrestrial origin.[12][13] He testified 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.[14] The Ummo affair is generally believed to have been an elaborate hoax.[15]

gollark: `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0` or something.
gollark: My phone is rooted. I could do that with one command. Fun!
gollark: Why what?
gollark: Currently it's Void, Alpine, Void.
gollark: I have a *unique* setup with three Linux-running systems on which I flip between about four distros every year.

References
  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.
  2. "Website of the "LAMBDA" laboratory founded by Jean-Pierre Petit". Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  3. Morin, B.; Petit, J.-P. (January 1979). "Le retournement de la sphère" [The eversion of the sphere] (PDF). Pour la Science (in French) (15): 34–49.
  4. Francis, G. K. (1980). "Drawing surfaces and their deformations: The tobacco pouch eversions of the sphere" (PDF). Mathematical Modelling. 5 (4): 273–281. doi:10.1016/0270-0255(80)90039-1.
  5. "Беседы с Жаком Лаканом. Интервью Жан-Пьера Пети. Часть 2". syg.ma. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  6. Petit, J.-P (1985). Topo the World (PDF). Savoir Sans Frontières.
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 February 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2019.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. "Presentation". UFO-SCIENCE®. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  9. J.-P. Petit (31 May 1990). Enquête sur les OVNI [Research on UFOs] (in French). Albin Michel. ISBN 978-2-226-04120-3.
  10. J.-P. Petit (5 September 1991). Enquête sur des extra-terrestres qui sont déjà parmi nous [Investigation on aliens among us] (in French). Albin Michel. ISBN 978-2-226-05515-6.
  11. J.-P. Petit (7 September 1995). Le Mystère des Ummites [The Ummo Mystery] (in French). Albin Michel. ISBN 978-2-226-07845-2.
  12. "Les Ummites". Ça vous regarde (in French). La Cinq. 1991. 53 minutes in. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  13. "Affaire UMMO / Conférence de presse à Montréal". OrandiaTV (in French). OrandiaTV. 1991. 58 minutes in. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  14. "Contacts Cosmiques avec Jean-Pierre Petit". NURÉA TV (in French). NURÉA TV. 25 October 2018. 134 minutes in. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  15. PARANOIA - People Are Strange: Unusual UFO Cults Archived 2007-03-31 at the Wayback Machine
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