... who is also the President of the GNFE. He also publishes his own journal, which appears to be just about the only outlet for info on ATROPATENA. In other words, it's basically a one-man show. Outside verification is sorely needed.
This so-called method of earthquake prediction seems to have found political backing --which means funding -- in some countries, but there seems to be a dearth of verification of the method by established scientists. This is the usual pattern among self-promoters who seek to mine scientifically naive politicians for gov't largesse, thus bypassing the usual funding agencies, who are more skeptical (justifiably so) of uncorroborated theories.
One of his "patents" is for a METHOD FOR RECORDING GRAVITY QUANTUM EFFECTS AND DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT SAID METHOD. Last I heard, there was no generally accepted theory of quantum gravity. More generally, he claims to be measuring gravitational impulses. This is an area in which a great many people have been doing research, and building experimental detectors, for some decades now. Suddenly, this guy comes out of nowhere and claims to be doing it routinely, precisely, and with extermely small detectors (which raises questions of its own).
The Wikipedia entry on Elchin Khalilov is rather uncritical, and appears to have pretty much the same info as the GNFE publicity page. In fact, all the Web sources for GNFE, WOSCO, and ATROPENTA seems to be little more than paeans to the brilliance of Prof. Elchin Khalilov, with lots of photos of him posing with politicians and scientific dignitaries, and lots of lists of brilliant inventions. Some of the more humble ones seem to be perfectly legit; his background is in petroleum geology and geophysics, but he seems to have ventured well outside his area of verifiable expertise by claiming to be able to predict earthquakes with great precision.
I strongly suspect this is no more legitimate than BlackLight Power.
If anyone can provide some scientific bona fides for this project, I'll unlock this thread.
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