Engineering Approaching a company or career engineer with an idea

[artis]

Well that is a fair point but physics is not magic, if I file a patent based on my understanding of physics that is my own business and money and the patent filling I could actually pull off with my own funds, then further I have my schematics and my description , the investor is welcomed to calculate my design and see that it works for himself, surely a working prototype would only accelerate this.

But in all honesty my credentials I think are only relevant if I want to get a job under someone else , like in a company or an agency like CERN etc, but when I provide my own design and my own device I think my credentials are second if not third , the most important thing is what I can offer, and if it turns out to be good enough I think I have the same chance of getting funded like anyone else.

At least this is what it seems from my perspective , maybe I'm dead wrong.
And after all people with credentials usually don't search for partners or funding as often cases they already work within a university or within a group that already gives them the necessary platform and finances to advance their research, at least it seems so from reading the research papers and patents from others.

 

[gmax137]

Please don't be offended, that wasn't my intent.

What I was trying to say is, without the credentials (degrees, institutional affiliation, previous successful designs, etc.) I think you will need to have the working prototype to convince anyone to lend you money or buy into your enterprise.

 

[berkeman]

The combination of "MHD" and "I have never studied natural sciences," makes me instantly skeptical.

if I file a patent based on my understanding of physics that is my own business and money and the patent filling I could actually pull off with my own funds, then further I have my schematics and my description , the investor is welcomed to calculate my design and see that it works for himself, surely a working prototype would only accelerate this.

I think you will need to have the working prototype to convince anyone to lend you money or buy into your enterprise.

I agree with @gmax137

@artis -- I stopped replying to your technical thread(s) about your questions because you didn't seem to have a good understanding of E&M and practical EE/RF issues. Maybe your posts improved in those threads after I unsubscribed, but based on my experience so far with your ideas and threads, you definitely need a working prototype before proceeding much farther. I'd recommend that you try your best to make at least a basic working prototype "proof of concept" device/circuit before going much farther.

You seem like a creative person, which is a good thing. I like to think of myself as a creative person, but I learned early in my career that it's very important to look for "non-existence proofs" or find issues with early basic experimental circuits in order to avoid wasting my creative efforts on dead ends. That theme has served me very well so far in my life and career.

 

[artis]

@gmax137 oh no I'm in no way offended, maybe my wording gave a wrong impression, I'm only a little nervous and quite exhausted because trying to pull something like this off in my case sort of feels like finding water in the midst of a desert.

Well I'll think about making a prototype, essentially it all boils down to money, theory is one thing but even if it is right one still needs resources. sadly not everything can be made in a garage, the prototype has to be accurate and mechanically precise otherwise I might get bad efficiency or wrong results, so I can't just throw a bunch of stuff together and glue it with superglue.

PS. one more takeaway from this, either way if I succeed or not, is that Hobbies are fun and joyful and a lot of good time as long as you toy around with them or do them in your garage, the moment one tries to make something real or complex most of the fun ends and a lot of dead ends and worries begin.