i guess physics is important to him

Tuesday's the Ubyssey had an article about a man in British Columbia who is on a hunger strike until someone debunks his theory of physics which, he claims, unites quantum mechanics and general relativity. See also his vague posts on random message boards, here and here. The article reads, in part:

Until someone debunks him or gives him two years' funds to research and publish his theory, Marcus MacGregor, 34, is going on a hunger strike.

After being turned away by two professors in the University of British Columbia's Physics and Astronomy department, MacGregor began fasting.

MacGregor, who dropped out of the University of Victoria physics program and currently lives on a boat under Vancouver's Knight Street Bridge, has been unemployed for two years.

"To say I'm wrong because I'm poor stinks of class elitism, and I won't have it," he said.

(full article)