"Let me tell you my theory!" If you think listening to someone's new app idea is bad, there is nothing worse than an amateur physicist trying to tell you their

"Let me tell you my theory!" If you think listening to someone's new app idea is bad, there is nothing worse than an amateur physicist trying to tell you their newest theory. "Proof? Who needs that! My theory is so elegant!" "What do you mean my proof doesn't make any sense, maybe I'm just too much of a genius! How can you not see that right away?" "You have, 1028 emails with frustratingly naive 'What About?' questions from various self-taught physicists." I think a lot of physicists get kinda jaded about outside work. Then, when a genuinely talented and hardworking non-professional shows up, it's hard to tell the difference.