I'm not smart enough to judge work of such momentous significance. Is this for real, or is this guy a wealthy quack? It just seems like I would have heard mor

I'm not smart enough to judge work of such momentous significance. Is this for real, or is this guy a wealthy quack? It just seems like I would have heard more about it if it was real. Or are we living through a Galileo moment where a genius is laboring outside the established institutions and is closer to the truth than the establishment? My neo-cortex is just not capable enough to judge these things, but I hope smarter people here can chime in.