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Respect to you for exposing how ridiculous the whole system is. I hope you have a framed copy in your office.

It reminds me slightly of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

I've done my own minor pranking as well:

https://successfulsoftware.net/2007/08/16/the-software-award...

My understanding is that quantum entanglement can't be used to transmit information. Given this fact and the fact that Einstein started out as a patent clerk, the great man must be turning in his grave!



Thanks, but I think Steven Olson actually deserves more credit than I do:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US6368227B1/en

I thought I would have to disguise the bogosity under some plausible-sounding pseudo-science, and to be fair, it's actually quite tricky to figure out why my invention doesn't work (though the fact that it doesn't work, and can't possibly work, should be pretty obvious to a patent examiner). But at this point I think I could probably get a patent for summoning dragons to slay my enemies. (Hm, there's an idea...)




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