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Amos Ori

Amos Ori is an Israeli physicist and professor at the Technion who studies the inner structure of black holes and the theoretical possibility of time travel.

born 1956Research on black hole interiorsA 2005 time travel model

Occupation: physicist
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mercaz HaRav Kook, California Institute of Technology

Amos Ori was born in 1956 in Lavi

Amos Ori was born in 1956 on Kibbutz Lavi. He studied for about 2 years at a high school yeshiva in Netanya, then left. He spent 1 year at the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva and 1 year preparing alone for his matriculation exams.

He served in the Armored Corps. After his discharge he moved to Kibbutz Migdal Oz.

He earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees at the Hebrew University. He did his postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology.

He became a professor in the Faculty of Physics at the Technion in Haifa. His research deals with the inner structure of black holes and the theoretical possibility of time travel, and he has published many papers on these topics. In 2005 he drew media attention after publishing a paper in Physical Review Letters that he said offered a more realistic model for time travel.