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It is a field that attracts a lot of cranks (who are pretty recognizable as being cranks via various patterns). Being a well known physicist must be hell.
You don't even have to be well-known to get crank attention. Post anything with "quantum" in the title on the arXiv and they'll find your e-mail.
Source: this is one of the few times when I can say "trust me, bro" and be entirely sincere about it
Had no idea it was worse. Damn.
Back when I was an undergrad I saw a letter addressed to the department from a German gentleman who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine (this was the department of mechanics). I remember the letter being quite typographically florid and especially the authors likeness in silhouette.
I often wondered if demolishing a PM suggestion would be a good extra credit question on an exam.