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Yes, it's sad. It's as if dimensions/units don't matter. There was a story about this quack on NPR that thought he could prove Einstein wrong. Turned out the guy couldn't differentiate (or wouldn't?) between momentum and energy. All his units were mixed up. He didn't even see the flaw in that.


Act Three (Sucker Mc-squared) of the This American Life episode "A Little Bit of Knowledge" and I promise you I didn't remember all of that offhand:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/293/a...

According to the capsule summary, he also thought he'd disprove Newton's work, in addition to disproving Einstein's.


And then he proved that black is white and promptly got killed on the next zebra crossing?




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