# Ransom Stephens

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**Ransom Stephens** is an [American](/source/Americans) scientist and author.

## Professional life

As a particle physicist, Ransom Stephens worked on experiments at [SLAC](/source/SLAC), [Fermilab](/source/Fermilab) ([DØ](/source/D%C3%98_experiment)), [CERN](/source/CERN) ([ATLAS](/source/ATLAS_experiment)), and [Cornell](/source/Cornell) ([CLEO](/source/CLEO_(particle_detector))), discovered a new type of matter, and worked on the team that discovered the [Top quark](/source/Top_quark). During the tech boom that ended in 2001, he directed patent development for a wireless web startup, and later became an expert on timing noise.[1] His specialty at this time was the analysis of [electrodynamics](/source/Electrodynamics) in high-rate digital systems.[2]

His novel, *The God Patent*, makes use of Stephens's experience as a physicist, patent director, public speaker and single father.[3] The novel includes a character loosely based on the physicist [Emmy Noether](/source/Emmy_Noether).

## Works

- [*The God Patent*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ESq1MUc0VSEC&q=the+god+patent). Numina Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-9842600-0-3.
- *The Sensory Deception*. 47North. 2013. ISBN 978-1611099195.
- *The Left Brain Speaks, the Right Brain Laughs: A Look at the Neuroscience of Innovation & Creativity in Art, Science & Life*. Viva Editions. 2020. ISBN 978-1632280466.

## References

1. ["Literary Salon: Ransom Stephens"](http://www.leftcoastwriters.com/literary-salon-ransom-stephens). 26 June 2010.

1. ["Archived copy"](http://www.analogzone.com/nett0927.pdf). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20051216095942/http://www.analogzone.com:80/nett0927.pdf) 2005-12-16 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2024-12-16.

1. Karp, Evan (2010-01-23). ["Hoppe's History of the World: Unexpurgated Version"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100523091814/http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-01-23/entertainment/17835165_1_stephens-first-time-author-online-publishing). *The San Francisco Chronicle*. Archived from [the original](https://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/2010-01-23/entertainment/17835165_1_stephens-first-time-author-online-publishing) on May 23, 2010.

## External links

- [Ransom Stephens's website](http://www.ransomstephens.com)
- [OpenDemocracy article on the future of publishing](http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/email/book-futures)
- [Vampire Wire interview with Ransom Stephens](https://vampirewire.blogspot.com/2010/05/interview-with-ransom-stephens-contest.html)
- [The Institute](https://web.archive.org/web/20100822190246/http://www.ransomstephens.com/html/the_institute.html)

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