Actor Claims His New Theory of Everything Improves Physics

Actor Terrence Howard claims that he has invented a theory of everything that improves physics, based on the idea that 1x1=2. After an appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, his ideas have unfortunately attracted attention. It is, of course, complete bullshit, but I try to say it nicely. (Not quite successfully.)

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[roybatty-]

Actors are often mistaken for people of importance.

[Leto]

The opposite of knowledge is not illiteracy, but the illusion of knowledge.

[CesarAnton]

"2 + 2 = 5, for extremely large values of 2"

Used to love that joke in college

[rethinkyourself]

The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence!

[bret]

Terrance is to math what Steven Seagal is to martial arts

[dsacton]

A good example of the Dunning-Kruger effect: a person is so ignorant of a topic, that they don't realize that they are ignorant.

[andrews]

This guy got 1x1 wrong in the 3rd grade, and was so upset that his teacher corrected him, that he tried to reinvent math so he could be right.

[LaVidayElTristeFinal]

Terrence Howard is very good at throwing and mixing a million technical terms in seconds, so it gets very confusing very quickly to anyone trying to have a conversation with him. When you hit pause and analyze what he's saying, it is very clear that he's just a bullshit geyser, spewing nonsense at incredible speed. But you can sympathize with the interviewers, because they are right to be confused. When they try to analyze one thing he said, he already made three more statements and the word salad is just impossible to follow.

[albertskoope]

"keep your minds open, but not so open that your brains fall out.”
"it is better to be thought a fool and remain silent than to speak up and remove all doubt."

[mr.k]

Oh dear, I thought of flat/young earthers as the top echelon of pseudoscience, but with his 1x1=2 he clearly deserves the first spot.

[JohnnyAppeseed]

"We've arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces."
- Carl Sagan

[familyforonehumanity]

Howard is the perfect example of today's culture - how media and style is valued over truth and intelligence

[edmunns]

Just please no one tell the guy about the imaginary numbers okay.

[JoeAuerbach]

I am getting very sick of "it's too complicated for me to understand it, so nobody understands it"

[TheTwober]

In martial arts I learned that if you vastly overpower your enemy, it is polite to not use full force on them, but just enough so that they see how unprepared they are for this fight.
Thank you for being polite.

[fealgu]

1 × 1 = 2. First, rotate × by 45 degrees. You get 1 + 1 = 2. Genius!

[kmp]

An actor belittling physicists and mathematicians is honestly a perfect reflection of modern culture.

[kasimirdenhertog]

In Dutch we’d call this ‘not hindered with any knowledge’

[PeteNice]

A simple way to explain multiplication is, instead of saying “one times one”, you can say “one, one time.” Removes the ambiguity

[BohemianWonderluster]

I paraphrase Ricky Gervais in his last Golden Globe speech, actors and actresses, “pick up your award, thank your agent, thank your god and F-off you know nothing about the world” . Also, “most of you, actors and actresses, have less schooling than Greta Thunberg”. If they would have any shame they would have left Hollywood by now.