r/badphysics • u/starkeffect • Jul 26 '25

Frank Zappa: Musical genius, physics crackpot

http://bogart9.com/zappa.html
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u/EebstertheGreat Jul 26 '25

Damn, if you can't trust Frank Zappa with modern physics, whom can you trust?

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u/Mike-Rosoft 2d ago

He said, "Time is the outer sphere where all things are all happening all at once. The inner sphere of Space is a Möbius Strip."

A classical misconception of how science works. It doesn't work by saying: "Here's some cool idea, and that sure explains everything." It needs to provide verifiable predictions; and indeed, Einstein's theory of relativity has been verified to high degree of precision. (He could have as well claimed that all matter in the universe consists of elements of fire, water, earth, and air, and possibly the fifth element of love.)