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Also it does not work if the floor is even and one leg of the table is shorter than the others, which I suspect is the reason for the "wobble" in many cases.

IMO this proof is a good example of science taking itself much too important.

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Is it? My experience is that most of the time in practice uneven legs of four legged objects are within a small enough tolerance margin that they can be considered mostly equal, but floors are surprisingly less even than we initially suspect, their vertical variability being perceptually dwarfed by their overall surface.

I think it is. The research paper is probably most useful when printed out, folded and placed under the short leg.

> criticisms of a pure math theorem being applied to physics

Next you're going to tell me the Moving sofa problem isn't really about moving sofas!

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