Hiii, physics enthusiast here!

[randomorchestra]

How did you find PF?

I was searching the web for a place to share this idea i came up with the other night.

Ever since i was a child I loved staring out at the night sky. I sat in the library going between comics and cosmology. Inventiveness was born from the two. Looking back, had my interest been supported i may well have turned out a physicist. Alas, there is always time.

In the meanwhile, I’ll use forums like these two pressure test ideas. Despite the usual connotation of a non physicist speaking on physics. My ambitions and passion is only reflective of a genuine curiosity and a believe that we will see a unified field equation that works!

I have no hold on these ideas. Should any of it be useful, I only ask to be a participant in some capacity. I wanna be there to see it through. I know the implications of claiming you've come up with something the smartest guys haven't. So I won’t make that claim. What I will say is, we want interconnectedness, so let’s connect some theories and see if theres a silver lining that appears.

What do ya say?

 

[phinds]

What do ya say?

First, I say welcome to the forum.

Second, I say that you need to carefully read the rules about personal theories (we don't allow them).

 

[randomorchestra]

First, I say welcome to the forum.

Second, I say that you need to carefully read the rules about personal theories (we don't allow them).

Why not? If I may ask? Like I explicitly state, I’m not a trained scientist. Yet, it seems to me that you don’t have to be, to be curious or create theories. It’s the part where you try to share it with someone else who knows more than you where it seems there is condescension. I came here specifically because someone on Quora said this is where the more tolerant (less gatekeepy) peeps are. Like what’s the harm in someone saying, “I have an idea?”? Especially, when I hope I’m wrong so that the feedback allows for even more clarity and ideas. If this isn’t the space for that, I apologize for working several hours over into the night to get all the info going through my head out in collaboration with ChatGPT. I will go back to emailing professors and never even getting a critique back. Even if it were nonsense, at least I tried :/ lol where’s the community of scientists and enthusiasts sharing ideas?

 

[PeroK]

I came here specifically because someone on Quora said this is where the more tolerant (less gatekeepy) peeps are.

I'm sorry to say you were misinformed. This site is fully moderated, and the rules explicitly exclude everything you want to discuss.

 

[Doc Al]

From the PF rules:

Speculative or Personal Theories:
Physics Forums is not intended as an alternative to the usual professional venues for discussion and review of new ideas, e.g. personal contacts, conferences, and peer review before publication. If you have a new theory or idea, this is not the place to look for feedback on it or help in developing it.

For more details, please review the Physics Forums Global Guidelines

 

[fresh_42]

Why not? If I may ask?

You may, but the answer will not please you and it is very difficult to phrase it politely. I'll try.

There are literally thousands of universities in the world, e.g. 422 in Germany alone. All are staffed with highly educated teams of professors, assistants, doctorates, and even students who seek a subject for their master theses. Add professional labs like Fermi, NASA, ESO, CERN, or Helmholtz, Frauenhofer, and Max-Planck in Germany, and dozens I will regret not having listed them. This is not only a scientific luxury. It is also necessary. Our current understanding of science has become extremely detailed, comprehensive, and complicated. You need years of study to even understand a tiny part of a specific subject in any of the fields of research.

This means: there are billions of dollars, and many thousands of people involved to push science. Now, how likely is it, that someone on the internet has found out something none of these people haven't thought of before?

 

[berkeman]

Like what’s the harm in someone saying, “I have an idea?”?

https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/wont-look-new-theory/

 

[phinds]

it’s an idea. A concept I discussed with Chat extensively. Then asked it to convert the concept into a series of equations trying to find one that could work with current understandings.

That's pretty much the definition of a personal theory. Actually, it's not even a personal theory, it an attempt to create a personal theory.

I predict that this thread will be closed shortly.

 

[Nugatory]

Idek what a personal theory is, outside of its obvious context

something that has not been appropriately published elsewhere, as stated in the forum rules and in the private message you were sent explaining why your thread was removed. As the forum mission statement says, we are not here to support the development of new theories, but rather understanding the physics that has already been done.

A concept I discussed with Chat extensively. Then asked it to convert the concept into a series of equations trying to find one that could work with current understandings.

That is not something that an LLM can do for you - it was just rearranging words in plausible-sounding patterns until it came up with something you liked. Indeed, this is why the forum rules don’t allow them as a source - it doesn’t know any physics, just how to sound like a physicist, and it has misled you.

Whatever the case, if that’s the route I’d have to take to see if there’s any value in this idea. My next question is how do I get published?

This question has been discussed in the Forum Feedback and Academic Guuidance sections, and sadly the answer is that you cannot come up with something publishable until you are familiar with the last century of work and what the currently open problems are. And that’s a lot of work.

This thread is closed. Further discussion belongs in the Forum Feedback section, but please review older threads and the discussion in the forum rules first.