I’m curious if you’ve ever seen this talk by Prof. Huub Bakker, a senior lecturer in engineering at Massey University. In the linked video presentation below he presents a lecture on Randell Mills’ Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics (GUTCP). This followed up by a (IMHO) weak rebuttable by Prof. Tony Signal, representing the Physics Dept., responding with a critical view.
Prof. Bakker’s presentation is a survey of Mills’ 1800-page thesis and necessarily omits any deep analysis or mathematical proofs. Nevertheless, it is a fascinating introduction to the topic and he forcefully makes the point that Mills is either a fraud or the most gifted thinker of our time. According to Bakker, “there is no middle ground.”
The lecture begins at timestamp 04:30.
http://webcast.massey.ac.nz/Mediasite/Play/8ef7e03e26fc458b8eb7f351738f26811d
Maybe he’s a gifted thinking fraudster.
For a while I worked alongside a chief desgn engineer who said one day that he knew several designers who had gone out on their own. They come up with some clever circuit that has a lot of promise and they “milk it for all it’’s worth, even if the damned thing doesn’t work.”
I could tell he was seriously considering going down that path. I knew only 1 design engineer who actually did this, coming up with a novel Adaptive Equalizer circuit.
The thing to keep in mind for circuit design is that the patents EXPIRE. So they have to keep coming up with hnew circuits that essentially do the same thing — not necessarily better, just DIFFERENT enough to keep a company’s patent portfolio fresh.
Fascinating video, almost directly lining up with what my friend the Chief Architect/ersatz Harvard Physicist said.
I didn’t finish it. He talks slow, I’m gonna try to find a way to speed it up.