>I don't think this is a good approach, you'll have lots of people wasting lots of time. There are alternatives to String Theory out there they just haven't had

>I don't think this is a good approach, you'll have lots of people wasting lots of time. There are alternatives to String Theory out there they just haven't had the mental horsepower pointed at them because everyone is busy playing with pretty math in string theory. I definitely think that should be done, too. But for someone who doesn't have that option of pointing their horsepower at an idea (i.e. they don't work anywhere as a physicist / aren't a physicist), the most you can do is musingly speculate online and the least you can do is nothing. I agree that most actual / working physicists shouldn't dilute their collective cognition and potential resources by each working primarily on their own pet theory. I just feel like for something as deeply mysterious and hard to pierce as this topic, there's some probability that every existing proposal might be wrong (and maybe not even very useful), so constant pure creative ideation among those who can't offer anything else might be a low-risk high-reward activity - albeit one with almost no chance of success - if done very cautiously and humbly.