Professor Stein had been laughed out of the university, laughed out of the town in fact for his perposterus claims of a moon that was once twenty times closer to Earth, but that wasn't the worst of it, the deeper his claims went, the more absurd and far fetched they sounded. "I'll prove all them nut jobs wrong" he shouted once, as he ranted and raved his way out of the university department.
We don't know what became of him. Many of us were the victims of some of his most outlandish theories, others thought we were just guinea pigs to his excentric experimentations. It was some time later some funder as crazy as him backed him, and nobody had seen him since.

One of his theories involved quantum resonance, from what I remember he argued that a particle could exist both simultaneously in two of more points in space at the same. But he went on to argue, was it such a push to simply jump up to the next dimension and exist in two or more points in time as well. Well that was the beginning of the end of his career at that point.

He argued once that the moon shared an atmosphere with Earth much like Pluto and Charon does today and at one point the moon was once only 12,000 km away. He had this mad glit in his eye, as though he was bursting to say more, but he knew he was already on the verge, and many complaints from concerned parents of the university students was steadily building in the principles office.

He explained that gravitational tides would have been much higher flooding most low lands, tropical storms would have been far more severe with significantly greater energy, and that the Earth would have rotated faster, therefore the days would have been shorter. Also Earthquakes would have been far more intense.
It sounded like a fantastic story for some science fiction movie, but for the real world of science he was simply laughed at, literally laughed out of town. Today I heard rumours he had actually created some kind of space/time machine based on his theories, and gone back in time to prove all his detractors wrong. One could only imagine.