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I showed this to a friend of mine who studies physics and then we did a little poking around on the internet. This is getting suspiciously little media attention and no mainstream academic attention and there are at least some people saying the guy is a total crackpot:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2007/11/ex...theory-of.html
Sorry to ruin the fun.
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Lol that dude is such a jackass.
p.s. I mean his tone, not his knowledge or viewpoints.
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he's super arrogant but occasionally funny. his use of the phrase "cargo cult" to describe amateur scientists who latch on to small bits of theories they don't understand is pretty hilarious imo.
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Ya rly, he's arrogant as hell but pretty entertaining with his acidic insults. His 'common crackpot's errors' (
http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/08/co...ts-errors.html ) blog is a pretty accurate depiction of all crackpots, not just theoretical physics crackpots.
Anybody that hasn't studied past elementary calculus and elementary physics (such as myself) is pretty much through the looking glass when it comes to this stuff, unfortunately. Even the majority of 'simple' explanations require the use of technical terminology that will be foreign without the acquired knowledge, no matter how intelligent the person is. This is the big reason crackpot stuff is sometimes accepted, the average person is wowed and intimidated by technical lingo.
Still, despite these regrettable shortcomings, i'm glad we're on the same page with regards to this:
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It is the same kind of "unification" as if you put stickers with elementary particles on a chessboard and argue that chess is the ultimate theory of everything. Kindergarten stuff.
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