Randell Mills

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'''Randell L. Mills''', M.D. is a dairy farmer's son who purports to have invented "the new fire" by debunking [[quantum mechanics]] and, in the process producing the book, ''Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics''.<ref>[http://brilliantlightpower.com/book-download-and-streaming/ ''The Grand Unified Theory of Classical Physics''] by Randell L. Mills (2016) Blacklight Power. ISBN 0963517147.</ref> [[Scientists]] say he's a [[kook]] if not a [[con artist]] who has been promising a {{wpl|Duke Nukem Forever}} energy revolution for decades, with some accusing him of bilking investors of tens of millions of dollars.  However, his company boasts some directors with impressive business backgrounds.<ref>http://brilliantlightpower.com/advisory-board/</ref><ref>https://brilliantlightpower.com/management/</ref>

The American Physical Society's Robert Park says of the farm boy ''cum'' [[Einstein]], "It's the American story but he's still wrong."<ref name="quantum leap">{{cite news|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-12-21/news/quantum-leap/ful|publisher=The Village Voice|author=Erik Baard|title=Quantum Leap: Dr. Randell Mills says he can change the face of physics. The Scientific Establishment thinks he's nuts.|date=December 21, 1999|accessdate=February 10, 2009}}</ref>

Steven Chu ([[Nobel laureate]] [[physics]] and [[Obama]]'s Secretary of Energy) says, "I feel sorry for the funders, the people who are backing this."<ref name="chu">{{cite news|title=Researcher Claims Power Tech That Defies Quantum Theory|author=Erik Baard|publisher=Dow Jones NewsWires|date=October 6, 1999|url=http://www.rexresearch.com/millshyd/millshyd.htm#dow}}</ref> 

The list of comments like this from authorities like this goes on to the point of being boring — although some are amusing enough to quote for a tl;dr:

Phillip Anderson (Nobel laureate physics), regarding Mills's "hydrino" form of [[hydrogen]] providing the Duke Nukem Forever energy revolution quips, "If you could fuck around with the hydrogen atom, you could fuck around with the energy process in the [[sun]]. You could fuck around with [[life]] itself. Everything we know about everything would be a bunch of nonsense. That's why I'm so sure that it's a fraud."<ref name="quantum leap"/>

Oh, and in case you were wondering whether he has a suppressed cure for [[cancer]] that was published in Nature, as well the suppressed Grand Unified Theory, you're in luck!<ref name="cancer cure">{{cite journal|title=A novel cancer therapy using a Mössbauer-isotope compound|author=Randell L. Mills, et al|publisher=Nature|date=29 December 1988|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/336787a0}}</ref>

==In real physics==
In physics, quantum mechanics is widely regarded as the most successful quantitative theory ever produced<ref name="principles of qm">{{cite web|title=Principles of Quantum Mechanics|author=Cole Miler|publisher=Department of Astronomy University of Maryland|url=https://www.astro.umd.edu/~miller/teaching/astr320/lecture21.pdf}}</ref> while Mills attacks the statistical basis of QM and claims instead that nature is best described by classical, Newtonian, physics.

==External links==
*[http://brilliantlightpower.com/ Brilliant Light Power] — Mills' company that touts his [[free energy]] device
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