violent. It takes a touch of genius?and a lot of courage?to move in the opposite direction. Leonardo da Vinci: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Perhaps it is such Baez/Carroll mean-spiritedness combined with the antitheorists' own impotence in advancing physics, (which is incentivecized and rewarded by unprecedented, massive funding), that is now serving to impede progress in physics. Too, too many FQXI recipients/members have so much money that they are able to hire postdocs/PR teams and anonymous, Ph.D.-less fanboys to further their decades-old, fruitless antitheories and geometric mysticism while also rejecting new physics that *serves* the spirit of Maxwell, Galileo, and Einstein, as the hired Ph.D.-less fanboys scream "crackpot!" at anyone who does not agree with the direction/antiphilosophy of their master's/CEO's/boss's antitheories which have lead nowhere for 30+ years and frozen physics. Mr. Lisi is rewarded $130,000+ for an overhyped, untestable, antitheory; and then he just disappears to go skiing and surfing, abandoning his ship--his FQXI forum--leaving us to do all the work and keep physics sailing along--for *free*. I bought his book, "Collective Electrodynamics" and frankly it's a level of discourse and math as far beyond my abilities as your work is, but I find it difficult to dismiss his ability to apply his understanding and perspective to real world applications and that is a standard which many more academically noted physicists would have trouble meeting. I bought his book, "Collective Electrodynamics" and frankly it's a level of discourse and math as far beyond my abilities as your work is,