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He has done some exciting work, but he hasn't done any physics in ages. If you don't (by choice or ability) do the work to prove your ideas, you can't expect anyone else to. If he wants to revolutionize physics, he can't leave that to others. That attitude is a defining characteristic of a crank.

Cranks can do good work, but when they get out of their depth and don't realize it, blaming everyone else, that's when they become cranks.

I like Wolfram, and I think there are some interesting and fundamental insights in among the relentless self promotion, but ANKOS is a painful read, even though I find cellular automata a fascinating model.