how would i submit a concept to an astronomy researchers community ?
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how would i submit a principle to an astronomy researchers neighborhood .. i have a new principle about utilizing area to journey more quickly than the velocity of light ( not going to mention information for legal rights) thank you.
of course.. my idea is based mostly on a considering that, physics and math… but what i want is to submit it to researchers and develop it.. for the reason that i swear.. they will be shocked when they know it as i was shocked when i initial analyzed it
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February 14th, 2012 at 12:53 am
Send it to me. I will determine if it is worth of moving on to a higher order or to spare your blushes.
February 14th, 2012 at 1:15 am
I recommend either going the “Open Minds” magazine route, as they are just nutty enough to publish something ersatz scientific paper-ish (especially if you tell them a Zeta came to you in a dream and gave you the plans for their Space Drive… no, really… half these nutters actually think that WILL happen some day!) or try submitting it to a Sci-Fi magazine as fiction.
February 14th, 2012 at 1:19 am
You don’t have a theory, you have a hypothesis.
February 14th, 2012 at 1:24 am
Is your ‘theory’ based on any actual science? Do you have any actual mathematics that demonstrate that it is even anything more than a wishful dream? Has anyone with any real understanding of science, like a local college science teacher, looked at your ‘theory’ and told you it is worth pursuing?
Or did you just come up with a totally unfounded, totally unscientific, totally lunatic pile of gibberish that you want scientists to waste their time on?
February 14th, 2012 at 1:46 am
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February 14th, 2012 at 2:24 am
To spare yourself embarrassment, first do research to determine if it is something already known in the scientific community or is, indeed, a new ‘hypothesis’. Then, once you are satisfied, send it to a couple of Astrophysicists for their knowledgeable opinion, under non-disclosure agreement if you are more comfortable that way. Then, if they concur with your hypothesis – Publish a Paper.
I am surprised that you would not know this already if you indeed profess to be a student of the sciences.
February 14th, 2012 at 3:05 am
ask for publishing on a magazine
February 14th, 2012 at 3:15 am
Yes, a peer reviewed journal is the generally accepted method. Publications by other methods will instantly flag you up as a fringe theorist/quick since the a peer reviewed journal is universally accepted within the community as the most robust way of testing you findings. Contrary to what a previous poster wrote, submission is usually free, which is why journals and back copies of papers are so expensive – peer review is a time consuming and expensive process and those costs need to be recovered. The alternative is the public access journals which are still very much in the minority where you do bear the costs of publication and the paper is then freely available to anyone who wants it – the costs for those are usually around a grand or so.
However, as others have pointed out it is highly unlikely you are on to something. We’ve seen these kinds of “I’ve got a great new theory” statements hundreds of times in the past. None of them have ever amounted to anything. If you were educated to the point where you were in a position to advance understanding in this field you would also be familiar with how to get a paper published – the two go hand in hand. In the absence of that I’d be willing to bet my house on the fact there is some pretty fundamental factor you haven’t taken into account, simply because you weren’t even aware that it existed.
February 14th, 2012 at 3:17 am
First of all, write it down on a piece of paper, put it in a sealed envelope and send it to YOURSELF in the snail mail. Once it arrives, keep it in a safe place. The postmark will be accepted by any court as proof that YOU had the idea at the time of the postmark (as long as you only allow the judge to break the seal). After that, you can at least feel a little confident that nobody else can claim to have thought of it first. Then be cautious about discussing it with only reputable scientists, attached to well-known universities.
February 14th, 2012 at 3:27 am
Graduate and sometimes undergraduate students need a faculty member as a mentor. Most students register and attend and often contribute something in a scientific conference (like a poster). Faculty members usually have grants that will pay at least the registration fees and sometimes the lodging costs for the student, but not always. I went to one scientific conference with a poster in 2000, and I paid all costs. My mentor did not go to Los Vegas with me. He was at an AGU scientific conference. Essentially the student is using his/her MENTOR’S scientific credibility to get their toe ” in the door” to start establishing their OWN scientific credibility. Without a mentor, YOU have NO credibility AT ALL within the professional scientific community. Apply and get admitted to a university with an astronomy or astrophysics degree program. Start doing some online research into which universities even HAVE a separate astronomy or astrophysics degree program, but majoring in physics, or one of the sciences or in engineering is what most people do. Not all medical doctors majored in science as undergraduate students. but they took and passed the prerequisite courses for medical school admission and the MCAT test while they were undergraduates even though their major might have been English or music performance
February 14th, 2012 at 3:57 am
Try the Journal of Perpetual Motion.
February 14th, 2012 at 4:34 am
1. They will automatically throw away anything to do with traveling faster than light, just like the patent office automatically throws away anything having to do with perpetual motion, without even reading it.
2. Is it BASED on physics in math, or do you actually have physics equations and mathematical formulas?
3. It takes a lot to shock scientists. They have seen pretty much everything.
4. Based on your brief description of your hypothesis, i’d guess its already been proposed.
February 14th, 2012 at 5:33 am
You write it up as an academic paper, and submit it to a scientific journal. In this case, it would be a physics journal. Then, if they think it is something other than utter bullѕhit (and I must admit I find that unlikely), they may publish it. Then physicists who follow the journal will read it.
February 14th, 2012 at 5:52 am
There really aren’t any jobs in astronomy if you don’t have a PhD in the subject, and that’s 8-11 years of college. And if you do plan on getting the PhD, you should be majoring in physics, not astronomy (although a double major is good). So the astronomy major by itself is kinda useless. Physics, on the other hand, can be very useful. Friends of mine with a BS or BA in physics who decided not to go to grad school have gotten jobs for power companies, development companies (GE, Sony, Apple, Google), NASA, research assistant jobs, jobs at observatories, for the patent office, teaching high school, the list goes on.
It will be rather competitive; there’s a lot of math involved, and many student will be trying to get one of the few research assistant jobs available to prepare for grad school. It’s a lot of work.