If any teenager had new theory regarding physics to whom should he tell or who to make scientist aware of it?
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Go to your teacher at school, because there's a 99.99% chance that what you've thought of is wrong or has already been done.
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You should be able to email him at:\n\ngreene@math.columbia.edu\ngreene@physics.columbia.edu\n\nHowever, he's a busy guy so don't be surprised if you get an auto-reply or no reply.\n\nI like this site to ask physicists questions:\n\nhttp://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/ask_an_astronomer.html
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I may be in teenage youth\nStill I'm here to spread the truth\n17
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How about with the truth? He's either going to learn it from you, or from his friends at school. Be open, be honest, and tell him the basics, then ask him if he has any questions. Be sure to remind him that he can come to you with any questions he may have in the future. Believe me, he'll respect you a lot more if you're open and honest with him about it.
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What should I inform them of?
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It would be interesting to know who would tell you.
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i have to agree with absynthian.  if they are in fact "physicists" then that means they have doctoral degrees in physics and telling them about quantum entanglement or string theory is going to be like giving a bunch of senators a talk about legislative procedure.  \n\nchaos theory, quantum entanglement/teleportation, and string theory are all huge and hot topics these days in physics, and they'll all have read plenty about them in physics today, nature and science, even if they aren't active researchers in that area.  you are going to bore their socks off if you get up there and start telling them about how strings are 11-dimensional objects, unless you have some really seriously deep and intuitive observations on the subject that you can share.\n\nhere is some good advice:  physicists are always interested in the historical development of their field.  the work of the big-name scientists - newton, galileo, maxwell - is well-known.  but there are a lot of physicists from the annals of history who led interesting lives and who often worked on subjects ahead of their time.  if you can find a research topic and show how someone from the 18th century studied a related phenomenon, and give it a historical twist, i think THAT would be a hit talk.\n\nanother thing might be to discuss some weird little topic from the back waters of physics.  people do research on all kinds of crazy stuff that's fun and interesting, but doesn't get much press.  for instance, nasa does a buttload of research into weird little problems - an example is that nobody understood why ketchup flows so slow at first, and then comes pouring out, until nasa figured it out.  that's one of many examples from this great page that might help you get started:\nhttp://exploration.nasa.gov/articles/index.html#fris\n\nanother way to get into this stuff is to just start searching around the web and looking at the research pages of faculty at various universities.  many of them will be working on hot topics - high-temperature superconductors or quantum information theory or photonics or something.  but you'll probably find one or two old guys at every place who are working on some totally off-the-wall thing.  THAT kind of stuff will be much better than the talk that ends with "..but we still have no idea whether string theory is really correct or not."\n\ncheers
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try to get someone to tell you or ask him.Someone must know.
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Some of Einstein's Ideas are already being rewritten. So, quoting him as an end-all to the question of anti-gravity really doesn't mean a whole lot. Newton's laws were rewritten after his time, as science learned more about itself. It's not unreasonable to assume that the same will occur in reguards to this taboo topic too. I remember seeing a video of a man who has come close, with a spinning top device. By itself, it weighs far too much to lift by hand. But, once it is set spinning, it could be lifted by a child. :)\n\nCurrent science is not an absolute. :) Don't give up hope!
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depends\nOf course if its a private school and sometimes in public. I think it would be ok to mention it in class but not preach it. When it comes to the origin of things like creation vs. evolution then of course both. No one knows for sure the real way everything came about so therefore you should present both views and let the kids see all points of view. Also religion is everywhere and it would be good to expose the kids to a little
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Wow... The best answer I've ever heard was given to me by the 19 year old daughter of my dear friend during her college interview (with me).  When asked how she reconciled her devout faith with the study of astro-physics (her declared major), she responded "I see physics as the study of God's creation".  I think that scientists are examing and exposing God's greatest and infinite wisdom.
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http://www.sciencebuddies.org/mentoring/project_ideas/home_Phys.shtml?gclid=CNDljtrK6IgCFQ7eSgodNw4Ssg\n\nthere are MANY projects available getting more complex as you come to the bottom of the page.
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Technically there are no solutions. The scientific community is built on ideas and hypotheses that haven't been dis-proven yet. It sounds ridiculous but just how the system works.\nAnd it will continue to work until a better system is devised ; )\n\nI was so disappointed when I got to uni science - in high school they tell you 'we KNOW what the structure of this is' and 'we KNOW how this effects that' but when you read between the lines at uni you discover that it's really 'this scientist had a THEORY that the structure is this and nobody had been able to disprove them so we will accept it as true until someone makes another discovery'\n\nThe fact is, it's just easier to think in absolute terms.
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tell them that luck can alter sci methordor to help you find a sci methord against a wrong theroy that they would be arguing
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I would put him in touch with an engineering professor at a respected college.  I have an engineering degree and find it hard to believe that a 17 year old has that much mathematics, analytical thinking and engineering knowledge, but it's certainly possible.
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No, I expect he'd find it facinating.  Scientists by their very nature are open minded.  They know things to be true if they are faced with the facts and true scientists can admit when they are wrong without feeling they are losing face.  Not that I think he is wrong.
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Write it up and send it to a physics journal. You'd get credit for your discovery if it is valid. If it isn't, they'll let you know.