Ofer Comay (

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: עופר קומיי; born 1957) is an Israeli chess problemist and a popular science writer who challenged the

Standard Model The Standard Model of particle physics is the Scientific theory, theory describing three of the four known fundamental forces (electromagnetism, electromagnetic, weak interaction, weak and strong interactions – excluding gravity) in the unive ...

particle physics Particle physics or high-energy physics is the study of Elementary particle, fundamental particles and fundamental interaction, forces that constitute matter and radiation. The field also studies combinations of elementary particles up to the s ...

Biography and chess career

At school years Comay won the Israeli Olympiad for Youth in

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organized by

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. He graduated from the

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...

with a master's degree in mathematics. Along with his father, Eliyahu Comay, he founded a software company which specializes in document image understanding. In 1985 Comay first time won the individual

World Chess Solving Championship The World Chess Solving Championship (WCSC) is an annual competition in the solving of chess problems (also known as chess puzzles) organized by the World Federation for Chess Composition (WFCC), previously by FIDE via the Permanent Commission of ...

. In 1986 he gained the title of International Solving Grandmaster. In 1999 Comay second time won the individual World Chess Solving Championship. His hobby is to compose chess problems and mathematical riddles.

Challenging the Standard Model of particle physics

Comay wrote popular science books about particle physics, which were based on the work of his father, Eliyahu Comay, an Israeli physicist. In 2014 he published the book
Science or Fiction?
' which provides more than 20 phenomena which, according to the book, challenge

Quantum Chromodynamics In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the study of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons. Quarks are fundamental particles that make up composite hadrons such as the proton, neutron and pion. QCD is a type of ...

, one of the cornerstones of particle physics.The most accurate theory in history, in any field. The first chapter from "Science or Fiction?"
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References

External links

* Problems at the PDB-Server
A blog about particle physics
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