Not that "2" is a proliferation, except maybe compared to the past?
Commentary by S Colbert regarding The Higgs Boson, from the future
sabotaging its past, is (perhaps to me alone) in a class by itself;
Colbert has a knack for dissecting the absurd:
I can't follow it, but that's no surprise. My understanding is that
the authors are not generally considered crackpots (depending on your
view of string or other theories?).