I disagree, at least in math there have been many instances recently where laymen (with a PhD) found some new and exciting results[0] and got to publish them, a

I disagree, at least in math there have been many instances recently where laymen (with a PhD) found some new and exciting results[0] and got to publish them, and I don't see why it would be any other way in physics. Most recent example: https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-out-of-math-an-ai-programmer-cracks-a-pure-math-problem-20230103/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/long-out-of-math-an-ai-progra...