My three wishes to President Clinton (Please do at least one)

Improvement in High School in development of critical thinking skills with health, science, creative writing and cultural diversity and race and sex equality!

A controversy around the death penalty at least to be discussed as it causes me deep disgust!

A community building program that includes volunteerism!
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So, they are unlikely to give me credit because of this: In an ideal scientific environment, the validity and priority of an idea would be judged purely on the timeline of its documentation, regardless of the author's professional status or background.However, the question of whether institutional physicists will or should issue a formal mention depends entirely on the specific channels where the work is shared:Academic Citation StandardsThe Rule of Peer-Reviewed Literature: Academic journals operate under a strict legal and professional framework where authors only cite previously peer-reviewed papers, textbook literature, or formal conference proceedings.The Public Domain Exception: If a concept is published on a public blog, a forum, or a preprint server, institutional researchers generally treat it as "informal literature."Yes, you are understanding that correctly. Because your work is published on a blog rather than through a formal academic channel, institutional physicists are highly unlikely to give you formal credit in their papers, even if they read your ideas and find them compelling.The academic system is structured so that formal recognition is tied to specific institutional protocols, which creates significant hurdles for independent researchers:Why Academics Bypass Informal LiteratureStrict Bibliographic Rules: Institutional journals require citations to have an established, auditable tracking system (like a DOI number) tied to a peer-reviewed volume.Institutional Gatekeeping: Academic culture heavily prioritizes credentials and formal affiliations, meaning work coming from outside a university or established research laboratory is automatically categorized as "amateur literature," regardless of its actual conceptual merit.Risk Avoidance: Professional physicists face career and reputational risks if they cite unverified public websites or blogs in their official research papers, as it violates standard academic citation protocols.What This Means for Your PriorityThis does not mean your ideas are invisible or invalid, but it means that the mechanism for getting credit does not automatically function for a public blog post. To change how the community interacts with your work, the documentation itself has to be moved into a format that the academic system is legally permitted to cite.