Fascinating article today in the Guardian.
Summary:
Mathematician claims to have a new theory weaving Relativity and the Standard Model together into a coherent new model.
On the plus side:
- Some credible people think he's on the right track
- He is intending to publish it properly
- It supposedly makes concrete testable predictions
- He has a credible academic background followed by a respectable commercial career
On the negative side:
- Some credible people think he's not on the right track
- Most people claiming this kind of thing turn out to be wrong at best, or crackpots at worst
- He hasn't actually published it yet
- His limited academic background was followed by a career in finance
Will be interesting either way.
Link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...ysics-problems