People with paranoid delusions seem to draw from a very small pool of problems that they want to solve: you hear from a lot of people who want to explain the mass ratio of the electron and proton [1] or think the world needs some great innovation in quantum gravity or solved P=NP: you never hear from a lunatic that they cracked the code for superconductivity in cuprates or discovered a better algorithm for writing parser generators.

For me the excessive interest in IQ scores and "genius" by some people is an indicator that these people think they are an undiscovered genius. It's a manifestation of the upper left part of this diagram

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113189883152005058

which describes a personality organization that involves a developmental arrest which could possibility involve some 'neurodivergence' that doesn't allow a person to develop a whole self so instead you have this thing like a bunch of little kids in a trenchcoat.

[1] has little to do with 'fundamental physics' because the proton is not an elementary particle