Plagiarism in 11 dimensions

Dr. Anilir claims he is a cosmologist who studied "11 dimensional theory of the universe". In his book "Space Elevator", he tries to explain his "theory" to the readers. Because it is a book for general public, he does not attempt to explain scientific details. (It is certainly understandable. However, we do not find any serious scientific paper on cosmology by him.) Instead, he shows several nice-looking figures to illustrate his "theory".

However, unfortunately, many of them seem to belong to other authors.

In page 66 of "Space Elevator", Dr. Anilir presents a figure with the caption "'Anilir model of the universe' from the viewpoint of the newly created concept of 'outside the universe'".
However, the identically-looking figure can be found at the web page of Dr. Schombert at University of Orgeon : http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/lectures/cosmo_101.html See also http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/copyright.html
The original figure of the curved surface seems to be (shown above, the figure in black and white)
William P. Thurston and Jeffrey R. Weeks. The Mathematics of Three-dimensional Manifolds. Scientific American, pages 108--120, July 1984.


Dr. Anilir is even selling "11-dimensional universe T-shirts": http://bearing.ws/
The web site claims "Let's start traveling another dimension, wearing the shape of the universe nobody has seen before." Sorry, I am afraid that the shape was seen before....

Likewise, he presents a strange-looking figure in page 65, with the caption "Model of the '11-dimensional theory of the universe' submitted to a physics journal of Cambridge University. A new concept going beyond the standard theory in cosmology was proposed."

Curiously, however, the same figure appears to illustrate "4-dimensional house" in the web article featuring Dr. Anilir: http://magazine.moonlinx.jp/sp/000490.html Apparently Dr. Anilir himself is rather confused. Is it 11-dimensional or 4-dimensional?

In fact, again, we can find the identical figure at

http://ucdarnet.org/gallery/novak-legrady.php
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/3764362944

In page 71, he again shows a beautiful picture with the caption "'Outside the universe' captured by 11-dimensional point of view. Looking from 'outside the universe', there exist various universes with different laws from the environment in the earth. The universe is kept by the balance of each." (Sorry if this does not sound meaningful; I tried to translate what the original Japanese caption says.)

Now, we are not so much surprised when we find the identically-looking figure elsewhere:

http://az.theforceisstrong.co.uk/entranced/graphics.php (second of the figures at the top)
(A bigger figure, shown above, was salvaged from the internet archive)

So, what about Dr. Anilir's "11-dimensional theory of the universe"? We don't find any scientific paper of him on the subject, and several figures which are supposed to represent the theory are apparently taken from works of other people.....

Is Dr. Serkan ANILIR a cosmologist?

Dr. ANILIR claims he is a cosmologist (宇宙物理学者, cosomological physicist) and has studied "11-dimensional theory" of universe. He gives a brief explanation of his theory in his popular book "ポケットの中の宇宙" (the space in your pocket). He also tells the reader of his struggle for such an achievement. He claims he was awarded a prize for his work on the 11-dimensional theory.

In the CV which was on his web page at the University of Tokyo as of September 8th, 2009, he lists the following paper (later the entry was deleted from his web page):

ANILIR S., “ A Proposal to understand the 11th Dimensional membrane universes and their architectural forms in space environment”, Physical Review Letters, Cambridge University Press, 2003/09, p. 39-50.

However, anyone with research experience in physics would immediately question the above entry.

• Physical Review Letters is published by American Physical Society, and not by Cambridge University Press.
• Physical Review Letters only publishes Letters, and the length of each article is restricted to 4 pages or less.
• Physical Review Letters discontinued using traditional page numbers, and articles are identified by a six-digit article number since 2001.

There cannot be a paper published as "p. 39-50" in Physical Review Letters, which is one of the best known and most prestigious journals in field of physics.

In the annual report of JAXA for year 2003 (when Dr. Anilir belonged to JAXA), a similar but different entry is found:

S.Anilir: Designing in Parallel Universes and 11th Dimension: Physical Review Letter, January 2004 Edition, p.22, (2003).

However, there is no paper published with Dr. Anilir as an author, in any Physical Review journals. (This can be verified at Physical Review Online Archive.) Furthermore, no publication in physics of Dr. Anilir can be found at Web of Science (subscription required), arXiv e-print archive, and SPIRES high-energy physics literature database. These databases cover most of publications in current physics research.