[TinyTree]

So what if someone does develop a theory of everything. They work it all out, and spell it out in some web pages. They submit it for a refereed journal and it gets rejected for obviously spurious reasons. So what if they just forget about it for years, decades even? Just drop it?

Would they have an obligation to continue to grind away at the lack of apprehension of others, or would it be okay if they merely just wrapped it up, threw in the towel, and went on to the other things in life?

Would it really have mattered if Darwin's paper had been published in some obscure journal and then forgotten about for decades? That happened for Mendel, and in the long run his work was actually recognized- but would it even have mattered? Someone else would eventually have read it and then rediscovered it later, with a new set of words to describe the same thing.

What do you think.