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>I just discovered a new crackpot preprint that pretends to
> derive Maxwell's equations from something very similar
> to strings:
>
> http://www.motionmountain.net/research/research.html
>
> Why do such idiots put so much work into this?
>
> John

Hi John,

Christoph Schiller is hardly a crackpot nor an idiot. The web page is
clearly labelled "A Speculation". His free physics text book is quite
good. Quite frankly, I personally enjoy his speculations as they are
usually more understandable than the speculations of other physicists.
His maximum force speculation is also quite good if you haven't read it.
But thanks for posting the link; I'm off to read it now.

Best,

Fred Diether
Co-moderator sci.physics.foundations