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I just finished the first draft of the hobby paper I’ve been working on
What is it about?
I’m dying to tell someone, because I very much need some rational human eyes on it to tell me whether I’m batshit insane or not. But it’s quantum physics, and traditionally that is the domain of basement-dwelling neckbeard incels trying to sound smart, or impress someone on their dating profile. I realize these may be unfair generalizations, but they do very much exist in my experience. Also it’s really complicated? 🤷♂️.
also I’m afraid of someone stealing my ideas, and I don’t know how realistic a concern that is in scientific circles 😬
Not to be rude but if you have no professional background in physics then it is unlikely what you have written is something so groundbreaking that it's going to be stolen. Nothing wrong with writing hobby papers for fun but I think you need to put into perspective what you are actually doing.
You can’t possibly think that’s not rude.
Someone needs to tell you the truth. There is only so nice it can be worded.
This is exactly the sort of response I was seeking to avoid by not sharing this, which I literally wrote in my comment, but you felt it necessary to be an asshole anyway. In a community that is supposed to be accepting of its members.
It’s more than reasonable to say that new perspectives don’t always come from credentialed institutions, nor should they have to. A lot of science begins with someone asking questions that don’t quite fit the accepted mold.
I never claimed this work is “groundbreaking” or ready for Nature. I’m developing a conceptual model: tentative, open to critique, and evolving with feedback. That’s exactly why I mentioned it; not because I think I’ve “solved physics,” but because I believe there might be something interesting here, and I want to see if it holds water.
If it doesn’t, that’s fine. But dismissing something solely based on presumed necessity of credentials sidesteps the content of the ideas. And that’s the opposite of how real progress has ever worked, professionally or otherwise. Attitudes like yours have consistently held back progress through history. And you’re only doing it to feel superior to someone on the internet, not out of any place of positivity whatsoever.
You're the one instigating this. I do not care to engage in the fight you desperately want, outright lying about what I said in order to desperately squeeze out an argument you desperately are seeking out. Go fight with someone else.
They're 100% right and phrased it as nicely as possible.