how do i submit a scientific theory?

Question

I have a question about black holes and i think it makes since but don't know how to ask about it without my theory getting stolen. The way I figure it if I can ask someone about it if they couldn't disprove my theory that would be cool but if they could then I'd have an answer to my question so its a win win.

thank you I understand that this will probably not make me a dime but if ,and this is a big if, my theory makes since and is recognized it would have been worth it just to help us try to better understand how our universe works that being said I know my theory will never become a law in my lifetime or probably (unless a huge boom in science happens very rapidly) within the next millions of years due to how long they take to really do anything significant not to mention anything we see in the sky is actually how it was billions of years ago.

Answer 1

The only way a theory means anything is if you publish it.

And to do that you have a find a science journal who likes your work and finds it complete with math to back it up.

Without the math it's just a bright idea like HG Wells inventing anti gravity metal.

The Catholic Priest who postulated Big Bang described the whole thing with math.

How the primordial atom would fuse under the weight of it's own gravity using the work of Einstein and Plank and how the gamma emissions would occur and how the propegation of mass would spread.

He also predicted everything was moving away from us at all times and that there would be a cosmic ray signature all around the universe as a background radiation.

These two elements were later proven to be correct and thus his theory became accepted.

Two other people came up with the same math separately and published within the same year and so all three of them share credit.

Stephen Hawking has postulated that black holes can be disintegrated by anti-particles. Each time an anti-particle is swallowed a particle of the black hole turns into gamma radiation and is released.

After a while, Hawkins states, the black hole will vanish.

Answer 2

Carefully document your work, get it witnessed, and keep it in redundant safe places. That's your best method for being able to demonstrate originality. Then, discuss it with experts you trust. I'm doing this right now for a colleague, and it also happens to be about black holes. Once you have a credible paper that intelligently presents your theory and honestly addresses the obvious objections, you can work to get it published. Without that careful preparation, readers will find an excuse to dismiss it as crackpot and move on. If you don't have an established reputation in the field already, you can't skip that preparation.

Answer 3

I have an Idea, that might answer, the oxy moron Ideas of Tyrannosaurus Rex... This being, it was over evolved in it's head, yet, slow and fagile, in it's body...
I believe, that along side it's abilities, such as binocular vision, acute hearing...And most importantly, its amazing sence of smell...And this... Is key... That this animal, May have had a venom laced bite.
Here is my hypothisus...excuse the spelling.
We know, T. Rex had a flexing skull.., Both upper, and lower jaw, could expand. As Robert Baker supports... Much like a modern day snake...
What If...T.Rex. had venom glands, on that bottom jaw, that were squeezed by the flexing, of a bite?
This would be an wonderful advantage to this animal....I wouldn't have to be fast... And it would keep it safe, in the need for food... All it needed to do, was bite quick, and wait, for the pray to die...
It is not unreasonable, or unheard of....The Komodo dragon, as recently discovered, All Monitor lizards, carry venom, in this way...
I have been working on Dinosaur theory for years... And have excepted all the new ideas...Tails up, warm blooded... and feathers... These were amazing animals...Not reptile, not mamilian... But, aomething between... They need a new name.

Answer 4

When you can write it up like the paper at this link, then scientists will be able to answer your question. Don't worry about it getting stolen -- just send it to 3 or 4 black hole scientists in different places. If one of them or somebody else tries to steal the idea, the rest will jump all over him.

But first, read the "pdf" file at this link. If you can understand it, then you are ready to publish your own theory.

Answer 5

1) write the paper

2) drop it in any number of FREE archives out there, like Cornell's arxiv.org

3) That will be like 'copyrighting' it. It's a bit tricky getting things in arxiv, specially if you have figures in the paper. Be patient with it.

4) Submit it to a journal as soon as you drop it in arxiv. Again, journals keep their submissions, so that also gives you a paper trail, whether they publish it or not.

5) You may also submit first, then arxiv later. Suit yourself.

6) After you have covered 'copyright' issues, and is already being reviewed by a journal, you can put it in your website as a pre-print.

7) I personally have been warned about putting things in a website too early, as in, before the paper is actually written. That is how people may 'steal' your ideas!

Unless, of course, your approach to problems is quite unique (like, ahem, ahem, mine!); you can put it in your website, and people will still not be able to do anything with it.

8) Good luck.

Answer 6

Well i don't know about submitting a theory but I do know i put my theory on a poetry site and everything you publish is instantly copyrighted

Answer 7

The way to publish it,if it is publishable,is to write it up with any necessary maths and diagrams.and send it to a scientific journal.To find the right one try to visit a university library,I mean (Journal of Physics,Journal of cosmology etc)
You wont need to worry about patents(which cost a lot money and time).If your idea is really a contender you will have enough fame so you can follow up ypur idea with other peoples money,If it,s a non-runner you will still show your a thinker and as god knows the world can do with more of them.
Get at it don,t let people talk you down.

Answer 8

Write it up, and then copyright it. Get copyright forms here:
http://www.copyright.gov/forms/
after it's been copyrighted, start submitting the paper you wrote to scientific journals. They will then either accept it for publication or reject it.
Even after it's published, people will be free to disagree with it.
Bear in mind that there really is no money in a scientific theory itself. No one's going to pay you to think about your idea. The people who make money are the people who find a use for the theory.

Answer 9

Submit your manuscript to the Astrophysical Journal here: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/front.html.

But if you have to ask this question in Yahoo Answers, and if you don't even know where to get appropriate data from (answer: the Astrophysical Journal at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/front.html), then chances are that your crackpot theory won't last 17 seconds of peer review. How do I know you are a crackpot? You have a "theory" long before you even know anything about black holes (otherwise you would not need to ask questions about them). I've got a hint for you: you're doing it backwards. You don't get to call a random jumble of uninformed ideas a "theory."

Answer 10

Questions are not theories. Black holes are complex, and an idea you have developed may have no facts to support it. That is what tests a theories efficacy, the supporting facts.