Well, here is my first blog entry. How very exciting. I have promised Tom I will update it at least as often as Andy and Jackson so you can look forward to my second entry in six months or so.

Anyway, I have now been working on my PhD for about five months and last week reached one of the landmarks towards being a true research physicist – I received my first paper from a lunatic who thought I might be interested in his theory which is going to revolutionise physics. I was so astonished by the ideas contained therein that I immediately quit my PhD – I no longer wanted to be constrained by the mistruths and lies which fill the physics building – and spread the word. I urge you all to read Quantum Thought Experiments can Define Nature.

Physics seems to attract more than its fair share of crackpots. The more intelligent and heavily medicated ones seem to end up as professors. The rest of them make thankfully have the internet to spread their wisdom. We also get quite a few of them coming into the Physics department at uni asking if there is a professor they can explain their theory to. The most amusing incident I have heard about is an email one guy at Melbourne got explaining that the correspondent had managed to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity (for the uninitiated these are the blatant lies which the physics community claims are currently our most fundamental laws of nature). He asked that the professor who received the email ensured the theory’s author receive not just the Nobel prize for Physics, to which he was clearly entitled, but also those for Chemistry and Medicine. I can assure you that I am now doing everything in my power to ensure this gentleman gets his due recognition and not only receives the mere three awards he so humbly requested but also the prizes for Economics, Literature and, naturally, Peace.

(Just in case any of you are considering publishing a physics theory, here is a checklist to make sure it is a Doctor of Physics and not one of Psychiatry you should be sending it to.)

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