Reception of Randell Mills' Work

In January 1998, there was a brief discussion of an early version of the
Grand Unified Theory of Randell L. Mills. His theory has now grown
into a large book that covers much of chemistry, physics, astronomy, and
cosmology.

The penultimate post of that brief 1998 SPR discussion, dated January
25, 1998, was from John Baez, who wrote that even though the theory
seemed nutty to him, it did make "a nontrivial testable prediction,"
namely, "a simple formula for the first ionization energy of an ion with
only 2 electrons--that is, the energy it takes to ionize the first
electron."

Baez noted that the formula matched experiment up to 3 significant
figures and at least up to Z = 9. He added, "This is pretty darn good
if Mills claims to be ignoring relativistic effects..."

Mills has since extended his work on ionization energies up to
20-electron atoms; and his full theory makes other nontrivial and
testable predictions.

The final post of the 1998 SPR discussion referenced above contained the
following interjection by the moderator: [Moderator's note: Some
more critical discussion of Mills would be welcome, but followups should
concentrate on specific aspects and criticisms of Mills's theory, and
not become too speculative. -P.H.]

I have been following the theoretical and experimental work of Mills and
his collaborators and employees since 1991, focussing on the question of
why their work wasn't getting a friendlier reception. In October 2006,
I published my findings in the form of a print-on-demand book.

I think that Mills is right. That's not a popular view in the world of
physics. Mills' theory, which he calls Classical Quantum Mechanics, is
a sweeping challenge to all the currently fashionable theories being
worked on by other theoretical physicists, and that doesn't make Mills a
popular figure among them, but I still venture to think that he will be
of interest to readers of sci.physics.research

Thomas E. Stolper (BA mathematics 1967, MA political science 1971,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

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