A physicist dismantles Terrence Howard's nonsensical "theory of everything"

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Here's an idea: maybe don't take every crackpot theorist at face value.

This guy has gotten way too much press for saying 1+1=1. It's time we all just say he's a nutbag and leave him alone to make old pots into brain shielding helmets and drink his own urine or whatever he's going to end up doing.

Like she said, he probably has a mental illness or did too many drugs.

If you ever want to be taken seriously in the academic communities with your "discoveries", you have to understand and engage with the ideas that came before. Usually that means showing other people that you can study the subject, and be successful, in university. If you haven't taken that first step, then you're already in delusion city.

I find that idea counterfactual.

Upstarts and citizen scientists are true and recurring trail blazers.

Here's one for you: everyone has it all wrong, state is NOT the elemental article of the universe (there is no smallest particle that builds it up.) Potential distributes entropically,and state is merely the resolve of stably bound packets of that potential. However small (or characteristic) that "knot".

I think that rambling he went on about was regarding the hyperdimensionality of our minds. He was tripping man, only his man brain was stumbling with words to recall that glimpse of the light fantastic.

Perfect example. Maybe that word salad in the middle means something to someone, maybe it’s even right, but it’s basically uninterpretable in an academic context.

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