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Hi,
I am not a physics major, but attend a small university and am working on my PhD. I stumbled across something, and just accepted what I saw and went from there. It helped that I
1. accepted that we are all human and make mistakes
2. didn't know what had already been disproven
So I need advice: Hypothetically, you have stumbled across the solution to a theory that has been highly sought after by some very big names in physics. The most likely alternate conclusions are that you are just very very wrong or of unsound mind, but no matter what you see a possible danger within your lifetime if you are correct.
1. So plod along researching this on your own as no one in your school has a clue what you are doing. Maybe even with the help of your tiny physics department you could be done in about 250 years judging from the size of a physics book. You would then try submitting to some journals (and you don't even have one published paper yet).
2. You are a slow thinker, but you could take some time to study abstract math and write out just the theory for only part of it. This would be more feasible as it is time manageable, but you still have that ticking clock in your head. Plus eventually your advisor and school will want to know what the bloody hell you are doing.
3. Just admit what you see laying before you is beyond the ability for one person to fully fathom. Just dump it out to the world for it to digest, if they will. This would be a challenge as the bigger the claim, the bigger the proof.
What would you do?
Regards,
QMessenger
I am not a physics major, but attend a small university and am working on my PhD. I stumbled across something, and just accepted what I saw and went from there. It helped that I
1. accepted that we are all human and make mistakes
2. didn't know what had already been disproven
So I need advice: Hypothetically, you have stumbled across the solution to a theory that has been highly sought after by some very big names in physics. The most likely alternate conclusions are that you are just very very wrong or of unsound mind, but no matter what you see a possible danger within your lifetime if you are correct.
1. So plod along researching this on your own as no one in your school has a clue what you are doing. Maybe even with the help of your tiny physics department you could be done in about 250 years judging from the size of a physics book. You would then try submitting to some journals (and you don't even have one published paper yet).
2. You are a slow thinker, but you could take some time to study abstract math and write out just the theory for only part of it. This would be more feasible as it is time manageable, but you still have that ticking clock in your head. Plus eventually your advisor and school will want to know what the bloody hell you are doing.
3. Just admit what you see laying before you is beyond the ability for one person to fully fathom. Just dump it out to the world for it to digest, if they will. This would be a challenge as the bigger the claim, the bigger the proof.
What would you do?
Regards,
QMessenger