Miles Mathis

It has never been understood how a gas maintains its energy, despite a collosal [sic] number of collisions. Miles Mathis (born 1964) is an American artist, poet, writer, pseudoscientist, and conspiracy theorist.

Mathis is best known for his outlandish and often ridiculous theories. For instance, that π (pi) is actually equal to 4, with the caveat that motion be involved; however, not one single reputable scientist agrees with this far-fetched nonsense. Mathis thinks that standard mathematical derivatives are incorrect &mdash; overturning almost all math and science, ever. He has also invented a charge field theory which, like all of his other myriad theories, has yet to pass the scrutiny of a basic peer review.

In addition to his math and science ineptitude, Mathis is also a raving conspiracy theorist.

The pi=4 theory
Quantitatively, this may be THE biggest error in all of math and physics, since every single physical equation with π in it must now be thrown out and redone.

For those who want to go straight to the pure mathematics of the theory (without all the tedious verbiage), read "The extinction of pi short version", which contains his comical attempt at a formal mathematical proof.

Listed below are the Mathis papers that describe his zany wronger than wrong unorthodox pi=4 theory:


 * What is pi?
 * The extinction of pi (15 pages)
 * The extinction of pi short version (3 pages)
 * Proof from NASA that pi is 4
 * The Manhattan Metric
 * The Cycloid and the Kinematic Circumference
 * More on Running Tracks
 * A simple experiment proves pi=4

A well-written critique of the pi=4 theory has been written by computer scientist Mark Chu-Carroll.

Derivative falsehood
Mathis claims that the derivatives used in calculus of many elemental functions (log(x), ln(x), etc.) have been calculated wrong, and therefore any math or physical experiment that relies on them must also be wrong. His evidence for this claim is nothing more than a reference to his own articles where he redefines the derivative; basically turning it into a rough approximation (an average value).

Unified field theory
This paper is not a historical overview of failed Unified Field Theories. Nor is it a philosophical treatise on the idea of the Unified Field. Nor is it an esoteric model based on extravagant and untestable hypotheses. Nor is it the revelation of some new math, so difficult it requires large computers just to store the equations.

This means that if the Earth were denser, you would weigh less, not more. You weigh less on the Moon not because it is less dense, or because it has less mass, but because its foundational E/M field is stronger. And its foundational E/M field is stronger because the Moon’s radius is smaller than the Earth’s. Although the Moon’s body is less dense, as a whole, its E/M field is more dense, on the surface. And this is simply because it has so much less surface area than the Earth (13 times less). You can’t just look at mass or density, you have to look at field lines; and the density of those field lines at the surface determines the strength of the foundational E/M field.

Mathis is perhaps most notable for his screed on the Unified Field Theory, which purports to derive a unified field equation, "the solution of a very long mystery." He provides no sources for this theory except for his own. His theory is essentially an esoteric model based on extravagant and untestable hypotheses.

This means that the dark matter math is also a type of modified Newtonian dynamics. It is modified in that it takes the definitions and turns them upside down. We could call it a FAFND: a falsified and fudged Newtonian dynamics.

The majority of his papers are an exercise in trying to justify a haphazard Unified Field, in which anything goes, including a mathematical proof of pi equaling 4. He states that he can say and do anything he wants because he has to answer to nobody.

Mathis has penned a couple of books that collect various random screeds from his web site together and attempts to pass them off as legitimate science.

Conspiracy theories
Mathis subscribes to quite a number of conspiracy theories, usually by the effect of "X person faked their death", "Y event was a hoax/staged" or "Z is an intelligence asset". Given that belief in conspiracy theories is often motivated by a sense of "special-ness", and Mathis claims to have overturned almost all mathematics and science, this isn't surprising.


 * The Boston Marathon bombing was faked.
 * The Sandy Hook mass shooting is a "scripted tragedy".
 * Unsurprisingly, he's also a birther and 9/11 truther.
 * All major internet sites, NASA, all universities, mainstream physics, and basically everything else (like bookstores) are infiltrated by the CIA.
 * JFK, and all his relatives since 1944, faked their deaths and have ruled the United States from the shadows (specifically, the Kennedy compound and island of Martha's Vineyard) ever since, with only Nixon trying to bring light to the conspiracy. This resulted in Watergate getting pinned on him.
 * John Lennon faked his death and is currently living in Canada.
 * The Zodiac killings were faked.
 * Stephen Hawking died and was replaced by an impostor years before his reported death.
 * The Lincoln assassination was faked.
 * The English Revolution was faked.
 * That every single historical figure since at least the French Revolution, and perhaps since the Renaissance, Including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and the Romanovs has been a "gay Jewish actor" completely controlled by "mostly Jewish industrialists" and had their deaths faked.
 * Every event, including the sinking of the USS Indianiapolis, the sinking of the Titanic, the Battle of Iwo Jima, Custer's Last Stand, and literally everything else was either faked entirely or almost entirely, with fake photos and storylines.
 * That since at least Shakespeare (who was a committee led by the conspirators), there has been an intelligence conspiracy to dumb people down by making entertainment and/or education be crappy or irrational on purpose so that the people who consume it become less logical or rational and thus less likely to oppose or comprehend the conspiracy.
 * That everything above and more that happened since WW2 was a part of "Operation Chaos/Kaos", which is referenced frequently many of his papers. The point is to make people confused, irrational and "turn their minds to mush" so that people don't question physics establishment, resist the conspiracy and buy more things they don't need.
 * Just... you name it, he has a theory about it.

Mathis regularly adds dozens of other equally absurd conspiracies.

You (yes, you) are in on it too
Even if we assume that everything he says is true, then we should refer to the Conspiracy theory page's checklist in part 4: especially logistics and plausibility.

Assuming him to be consistently correct, this would require the conspiracy to have potentially tens of and very possibly hundreds of millions of people being involved or more and not massively spilling the beans, including every historian, photographer/painter, the low-level grunts "in-on-it", or even just more logical than normal people in the entire world, possibly for four centuries or even millennia (one Mathis reader thinks that it goes back to before the Establishment of Israel, and the word "God" was perhaps referring to them). The conspiracy would have to be at least as big as the size of the Flat Earth conspiracy (which Mathis claims to be a NASA/CIA puppet movement to prevent the questioning of physics). He takes this to parodic proportions in a paper about people confusing The Onion with "real news", which is called Poe's Law, the paper "Breaking News". Because everyone's dream when they join the CIA is to work nine-to-five making "as seen on TV" jingles and writing a teleprompt for villages whose populations are in the double digits.

Besides the size, the conspiracy is also smart enough to hide from scrutiny these people’s secret allegiances with the powers that be from the masses, rumblings and exposures about inconsistencies with the official story from those not in on it (which is literally almost everyone except Mathis), eliminate the most significant leaks, etc. while at the same time being so bone-headed that they apparently can't forge photos or create consistent or believable stories for their alleged actors. Mathis himself says that currently "something on the order of 10 million people have been hired in the US alone" and includes us at RationalWiki as "in on it". Questions such as logistics, benefits, and exposure should often be considered. He almost exclusively uses Wikipedia, despite also calling Wikipedia a CIA front, Geni.com, a few other "mainstream" sites for research, plus "logic".

If the stories are also allegedly so implausible/impossible/contradictory/plain crappy, say a painting that looks too new to be painted at the time, why haven’t student academics (who may have access to various archives and more knowledge then laypeople) ever piped up? Speaking of that, why has nobody “in on it” — the photographers, editors, actors, film directors, extras, storyline writers and more — ever come out publicly and explicitly reveal the centuries-long gambit? If they are just censored by the “mainstream”, in fact, if so many of the photos and stories are as obviously fake a Mathis says they are, then why has nobody, even and especially every-men on the streets, figured out what Mathis has if it is supposedly so simple to unravel?

All these questions are handwaved by Mathis: they are all either useful idiots, in on it too, or most importantly being censored and squelched by the controlled mainstream media, saying that questions about lack of exposure are just "misdirection" and that leaks of the conspiracy are just not reported by said media (if that is true, then how did someone who "exposed" the moon landing, Bill Kaysing, become so well known among conspiracy theorists or get his book published at all if they control the media so totally? If you say they "blackwashed" him afterward, why even bother when you can squelch the bug while it's small and save the legwork?).

And the elephant in the room: If the ruling elites are so incompetent in so many respects (leaving compromising data openly available on the internet and playing games with Mathis using even crappier shills all allegedly reading from the same script instead of unpersoning him, having their actors all be gay, Jewish, and related to each other, et al., even if as Mathis claims that a single "flicker in the matrix" can be fatal to the entire conspiracy, how in the world have they gotten this far without having a fuck-up that reveals the whole charade? (Mathis says 9/11 was the big fuck up, but this whole mess should have crumbled long ago, especially since he claims througout the papers that the conspirators are also in a low-level conspiracy against themselves.)

Anti-Mathis Science Conspiracy
To quote from Mathis' page "debunking" conventional interpretations of the

The rest of the post asserts that science paywalls — rather than being relatively innocent capitalism-fueled endeavors — are set up to hide information.

Anti-semitism
Mathis exhibits blatant anti-semitism in his writings. He has claimed that many non-Jewish individuals are actually Jewish, including C.S. Lewis, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Pierre-Simon de Laplace.

Persecution Complex
Unsuprisingly, Miles Mathis has a persecution complex suitably sized to his perceived genius. He thinks that everyone, other conspiracy theorists, mainstream theorists, all academics, and other assorted naysayers to his theories are never just sheeple innocently repeating what they were taught to believe, but CIA fronts/agents/hires, employed to keep people off his research, and he regularly accuses people of being controlled opposition:

Response to RationalWiki
Mathis got mad at this page, alleging that we at RationalWiki "probably come out of Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, since they look to be a psychological operations unit". Here are some quotes from another of his responses:

He — or someone who writes a lot like him — really doesn't like this page.