Original research

by Feòrag

Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute has a very interesting inbox, and needed to share:

Now and again, independent thinkers will send their own research papers -- the distilled essence of years of effort in the attic or den -- which purportedly show in a handful of pages, and with third-grade mathematics, that Einstein was wrong, and that SETI is therefore, somehow, barking up the wrong tree. I store these with tender care, and always offer to send back originals. But then again, I'm probably too soft.

Emails Illustrate Fine Line Between the Brilliant and the Bizarre - Space.com, 12th August 2004.