Fermilab Crank Letter

[blobrana]

The enigma began last year when a plain envelope with no return address arrived at the world-famous physics laboratory outside Chicago, addressed simply to "Fermilab."
Inside was a single sheet marked by pen with a bizarre series of hash marks, numbers and alien-looking symbols.
No one at the lab could make sense of the letter. Was it a joke? A threat? A hint at some exotic new theory?

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[EndLightEnd]

If someone wanted to propose an exotic new theory, why do it this way?

Sending cryptic messages just doesnt seem like the best way to convey the intricacies of a new theory.

[Fraggle Rocker]

It's not likely a threat, since nobody understood it. That leaves:Prank; Crazy.