On: How many fundamental constants does it take to describe our Universe?

Act Three (Sucker Mc-squared) of the This American Life episode "A Little Bit of Knowledge" and I promise you I didn't remember all of that offhand:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/293/a...

According to the capsule summary, he also thought he'd disprove Newton's work, in addition to disproving Einstein's.

And then he proved that black is white and promptly got killed on the next zebra crossing?