All name physicists are flooded with crank emails of the >>EinSteIn WaZ tEh RoNg I aM cLeVeReReR!!1!<< type. So the odds of a truly revolutionary theory gettin

All name physicists are flooded with crank emails of the >>EinSteIn WaZ tEh RoNg I aM cLeVeReReR!!1!<< type. So the odds of a truly revolutionary theory getting taken seriously based on a cold-email are significantly less than zero. The problem is very obvious - science was both more open and more selective a century ago. There were far fewer PhDs, but they were of far higher quality. And the networks were smaller, friendlier (mostly), and more personal. Now we have an industrialised corporate physics industry turning out thousands of PhDs a year. Most have been steered away from fundamental questions towards tweaks of the Standard Model - because anything else is career suicide and impossible to get funding for. And after all of that, there's far more money in finance. So that's where the best people go to waste their talent.