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For the past 15 years, acclaimed technology article writer Margaret Wertheim has been collecting the works of "outsider physicists," many without formal training and all convinced that they have found genuine option ideas of the universe. Jim Carter, the Einstein of outsiders, has developed his own complete theory of matter and energy and gravity that he shows with tests in his back garden - with garbage cans and a disco fog machine he makes smoke rings to test his ideas about atoms. Captivated by the imaginative vitality of his ideas and his resolutely DIY attitude, Wertheim has been following Carter's progress for the past decade. Centuries before, natural philosophers puzzled out the laws and regulations of dynamics using the tools of observation and experimentation. Today, theoretical physics is becoming mathematically inscrutable, accessible and then at the very top few. In rejecting this abstraction, outsider theorists insist that nature talks a language we can all understand. By way of a profoundly human profile of Jim Carter, Wertheim's exploration of the bizarre world of fringe physics troubles our conception of what technology is, how it operates, and who it is perfect for.
