The Stand-Up Physicist: The Good Will Hunting Experiment At Harvard

[BrandonFurtwangler]

If you can't get anyone to listen & critique your theory, then maybe you should change strategies & buy an audience. Cold call some up-and-coming, but not yet well established scientists & offer to buy them dinner. Dont tell them you want to spring a theory on them, but just that you're interested in learning from them via a dinner conversation. Then at dinner spring it on them. If they think its a reasonable idea, you can leverage their connections to get more attention.

[sweetser]

Hello Brandon:

That's a creative idea! I do need a chalkboard, and those are rare in restaurants (plus the tables near the boards are always filled :-)

I am trying the old fashioned approach right now, and have submitted a paper to a technical peer-review journal. I am not optimistic because I am sure my lack of formal training is easy enough to spot by a professional. Gotta try though.

[metainfinity]

I wish I could study this stuff at a good school. :/

[DavidAKZ]

Study it yourself !