Crank Academia: Where Physics Goes To Die

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Crank Academia: Where Physics Goes To Die

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Welcome to the wild west of pseudoscience, where academic credentials go to die! This glorious compass maps the landscape of physics cranks by their level of creativity and potential harm.

Top left: The "creative but harmful" quadrant features what appears to be someone drinking poison while wearing a name tag. Because nothing says "groundbreaking research" like ignoring basic safety protocols.

Top right: Phrenology diagrams - measuring skull shapes to determine intelligence. About as scientifically valid as determining quantum states by reading tea leaves.

Bottom left: The "digits have an end" conspiracy - creative but harmless. These folks probably spend weekends trying to find where the number line stops. Spoiler: it doesn't.

Bottom right: "Fermat's last theorem is wrong" - the mathematical equivalent of saying "I've disproven Einstein using Excel and a flat earth model."

Thirty years teaching physics and I've seen every flavor of crackpot theory. The truly special ones manage to be both completely wrong AND require a completely new branch of mathematics to disprove.

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