Physicists often complain about the volume of mail they receive from
crackpots who want them to verify their badly conceived theories. What I didn’t
realize is that any given crackpot has a high likelihood of being a retired engineer,
and more specifically a retired electrical engineer! It came as quite a shock
to learn this, since I happen to be a retired electrical engineer (and, some
would say, a crackpot as well).
