[onetimePete]

The problem is that fields don't advance in a continuous process, but its in bursts of stop and go. This state with a lack of progress and entrenched thought schools is prelude to another fracking of the unknown. Somebody in all this science looks on the "outliers" and will connect the dots. And the truth is, that not the science community grants the ultimate reward- but society and economics, via application.

You can assemble a thousand followers, claiming that electrons are little golden dwarfs, running through the metal if fed with potatoes, but the world wants chips without chips, so what hinders science? Globalization, border-lessness, in a ironic twist, cause where can that industrial revolution flourish and reward overcome all prejudices? When the potato religion/ideology is the same everywhere, there is noway to run too for the first battery maker.

One of the charlatans is not one. Better to feed a hundred of them, for the one to prevail.