Re: Reception of Randell Mills' Work

Tstolper@xxxxxxx wrote:
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.

Several years ago a friend of mine, not a physicist, who had known Mills
earlier, asked me (paid me) to look critically at some of Mills' written
explanations. I did, and concluded that Mills had no idea whatever what
he was talking about on a theoretical level (it was total nonsense), and
had apparently done none of the literature search relating to his sub-
ject. About his experimental 'results', I can't comment.

- Dushan Mitrovich

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