I'm not a physicist but as soon as I saw it I thought that it would be very costly (in physicist time) to distinguish it from a real physics paper. The difference between this and the output of a physics crank may well just be how fast they can produce it.
For someone working in the are it should be fast. It's too far away from my are to skim and find the errors.
Anyway, the default for a preprint (or paper) in the trash bin. Unless it's recommended by someone I thrust or it's published in a serious journal, I'd just ignore it.
For a post in HN, I can take a 10 minute look and try to find something interesting to comment about it good or bad. But not more than 10 minutes unless there is good reason.
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I'm not a physicist but as soon as I saw it I thought that it would be very costly (in physicist time) to distinguish it from a real physics paper. The difference between this and the output of a physics crank may well just be how fast they can produce it.
Sorry for the very late reply...
For someone working in the are it should be fast. It's too far away from my are to skim and find the errors.
Anyway, the default for a preprint (or paper) in the trash bin. Unless it's recommended by someone I thrust or it's published in a serious journal, I'd just ignore it.
For a post in HN, I can take a 10 minute look and try to find something interesting to comment about it good or bad. But not more than 10 minutes unless there is good reason.