Shameless plug for my Hiter parody of cranks who write such papers (modeled after Scott Aaronson's reaction to such a paper [0]). https://www.youtube.com/watch

Shameless plug for my Hiter parody of cranks who write such papers (modeled after Scott Aaronson's reaction to such a paper [0]). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwUQVv7wCGA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwUQVv7wCGA [0] https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf >> Last summer Bringsjord and Taylor posted a paper entitled “P=NP” to the arXiv. This paper argues that, since (1) finding a Steiner tree is NP-hard, (2) soap bubbles find a Steiner tree in polynomial time, (3) soap bubbles are classical objects, and (4) classical physics can be simulated by a Turing machine with polynomial slowdown, it follows that P=NP. >> My immediate reaction was that the paper was a parody.