a lesswrong: 47-minute read extolling the ambition and insights of Christopher Langan’s “CTMU”
a science blogger back in the day: not so impressed
[I]t’s sort of like saying “I’m going to fix the sink in my bathroom by replacing the leaky washer with the color blue”, or “I’m going to fly to the moon by correctly spelling my left leg.”
Langan, incidentally, is a 9/11 truther, a believer in the “white genocide” conspiracy theory and much more besides.
There’s a longish section about the physicist John Archibald Wheeler. I know people who worked with Wheeler. I’ve read Wheeler’s unpublished notebooks. Get John Wheeler’s name out of your mouth.
The very first thing that section says is
No, he didn’t.