I wish I knew what motivated these cranks. The Mantraphilter thread was interesting because he finally made (reluctantly and after six or so pages) a definite prediction from his half-assed and incoherent ideas: Protons are more massive than neutrons (because they’re actually neutrons that receive electric charge from compressed photon waves, but one step at a time). But when it was pointed out that experiment in fact shows the opposite, he predictably started rambling about how he’s actually right but the scientific orthodoxy just switched around the names of protons and neutrons, how math can prove anything that’s even remotely true, how relativity means that all experiments are wrong, or etc. The moral is, these are not rational people, and there’s literally nothing that will cause them to reconsider their sneer-quoted ‘theories’. For example, from the original thread: