Greetings. Today I received a rather unusual and completely unsolicited e-mail from one Klee Irwin, mentioning the glider I found on a Penrose tiling cellular automaton:
----- Original Message ----- From: Klee Irwin <Klee@QuantumGravityResearch.org> Sent: 01/12/14 09:07 AM To: apgoucher@gmx.com
Hi, Adam. Congrats on the Penrose tile glider. Would you have time to do some paid consulting for our group?
Approaching this with the deserved amount of suspicion and scepticism, I proceeded to Google `Klee Irwin'. Apparently he owns several businesses, including a nutriceutical company that was sued $2.65 million for selling pills with an illegal concentration of lead. I've read numerous complaints from people who were apparently defrauded by him. Also, there are news stories of him investing six-figure sums in certain companies. His `group' has also published some mathematical papers, including this one: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.1446v1.pdf Note that the claimed result is actually false; consider projecting a rhombus onto a diagonal, for instance. Even if it were true, it would surely be a trivial application of Huygens-Steiner or some variant thereof. Judging by this evidence, Irwin appears to be a crank. So, why has this person contacted me ex caeruleo? Sincerely, Adam P. Goucher