Reddit reviews Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons, and Alternative Theories of Everything

I'd point out the numerous conceptual errors you showed in that last comment (eg. according to special relativity, photons don't have mass, because they move at the speed of light), but I'm clearly wasting my time here.

You do you, but don't expect any professional physicist to take you seriously with the attitude you've presented here.

I'll leave with a book recommendation. Don't worry, it doesn't have any math.

there was a crackpot once who thought such a thing.

http://living-universe.com/introduction-to-the-principle-of-circlon-synchronicity/ [warning to the kids, this isn't genuine physics]

there was even a book written about him and his crackpottery.

https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Fringe-Circlons-Alternative-Everything/dp/0802715133

[i'm still reading through that]

>I'd point out the numerous conceptual errors you showed in that last comment (eg. according to special relativity, photons don't have mass, because they move at the speed of light), but I'm clearly wasting my time here.

Anyone who actually knows what they’re talking about wouldn’t even use the term “the speed of light.” Einstein’s famous equation refers to the speed of the smallest form of energy we know of in a vacuum (P.S: the universe is by no means a vacuum; there’s mass everywhere). Photons travel more slowly around objects with large mass, which is why light can’t escape black holes.

You make far too many assumptions based on unfinished data. Again, there was a point where atoms were only theorized to exist. This theory is simply the next step.

>I'll leave with a book recommendation. Don't worry, it doesn't have any math.

I appreciate the recommendation, but not so much the condescending remark. It’s not that I have trouble with math; I’m just not going to learn equations that are not needed to prove/falsify my own theory. The equation I have now doesn’t work and is useless and meaningless, I get that. It’s a work in progress.