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Tip: use the patch format feature of GitHub to view people's e-mail addresses.

Looking at the commit log, the initial commit caught my attention. The author of the initial commit does not link to any particular account on GitHub. See https://github.com/gliimly/gliimly/commit/23e44479d675d3124e...

From here, we can see some identity.

  From: gliimly <sergemij@yahoo.com>
Pasting the e-mail address into a search engine reveals another work by the same person. In particular, https://vixra.org/pdf/1208.0044v2.pdf . The fact the person publishes under Vixra likely means they are not someone malicious, just what some in the mathematics community call a "crank".


I kinda read this paper, and holy crap, it's what we used to call in college "one of those guys", during the early 2000's.

A computer scientist or engineer who is reasonably competent in his area, but that for some reason decided that he is the one who is going to unify all of physics with his pet theory based on a superficial understanding quantum theory and relativity (always special relativity, never general relativity).


Thanks for the sleuthing work.

And by “crank” do you mean a recluse? Or someone off of the grid?


The first definition in [0], that is:

  a person who has strange or unusual ideas and beliefs
[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/crank


Another term for it would be "fringe science". The paper is an amusing thought experiment based on some baseless assumptions; it would be foolish to assume that it describes any kind of physical reality.




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