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His physics project is high risk, and probably wrong. But very worth it. He's working on things outside what the physics community is focused on. And there are
by the__alchemist 2y ago
His physics project is high risk, and probably wrong. But very worth it. He's working on things outside what the physics community is focused on. And there are incentives for them to keep working the same angles. IMO you need outsiders to spark progress in cases like this. I will continue reading his work and progress.
I think, specifically, his vision is very different and radical from other things I've seen, which you'd think would lend itself to at least one currently-testable hypothesis, but I haven't seen one. It seems there may overfitting. He has a way for every major principle in physics to fit into his theory, but no new ones, or flaws in current ones; that's what worries me. I hope he continues working on it. (Unlikely he'll stop after this many decades)
As a comparison, I'm more hopeful for this than String theory, and the latter has been found worthy of physicist's time, so I certainly think this is.
Regarding the crackpot angle: I think that is not an appropriate label: If you look at the people that the label canonically applies to, you will find people who have no idea what they're talking about, who don't understanding the math and physics etc. That is not the case here; he knows it as well as anyone.