abstract:Jim (James) Carter is an amateur scientist, whose theory of "circlons" attempts to replace the existing theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, and the big bang theory with the idea that everything is made up of circular objects that interact in a mechanical way.Freeman Dyson, "Science on the Rampage", New York Review of Books, April 5, 2012, http://www.
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