With all the pseudonyms flying around on this forum, you never really KNOW who you are speaking with, but if you have an interesting idea you want to lay on the table, this is a good place to do it.

Right now things are pretty quiet. Everybody knows how they feel on certain subjects and for the most part, are not looking for conceptual advice. The holidays have quieted things down too.

How can a theoretical physicist become popular? When they turn the world upside down and then dramatically prove they are just plain right! When Einstein realized that his baby GR theory perfectly explained the precession of Mercury's orbit was only the beginning. Now GR has been verified to 17 places. Everywhere we test the theory it comes up a winner.

With regard to SRT, the Atomic Bomb pretty well convinced the world...but scientifically the great equivalence proportion was verified to many places by those explosions.

Einstein was declared...not the scientist of the 20th century, but the most important PERSON of the 20th century by Time, and he had plenty of competition. Stephen Hawking has risen above his physical limitations to make great contributions to Physics, and challenge basic assumptions we make about the universe with his parallel universe project.

The people of the world want to look up to someone beyond the political and legal professions...someone who is intellectually honest, completely open, uncompromising, and doesn't understand expediency. At the same time we fear such people, SCIENTISTS...because we instinctively understand that the real power to change the future for better or worse is in THEIR hands.

The universe is a magnificent, awesome place!

Best Wishes, Sam Cox