Self-taught scientists must answer questions
Alfred Nobel might have never expected his name to be associated with a Chinese national named Guo Yingsen, who is nicknamed "Brother Nobel" for having said at a job-seeking TV show in 2010 that his theory could win him the Nobel Prize for physics. The TV show video clip became popular online after the recent discovery of gravitational wave and showed Guo mentioning the terms.
Who or what made Guo popular overnight is unknown, for in the TV show, the only thing he did that had any relationship with science was simply mentioning three physics terms: "accelerated system", "gravitational wave" and "material wave". Since one can easily come across these terms on the Internet, Guo does not become a potential winner of the Nobel Prize for physics because of this.
One year after the TV show, Guo appeared at the gate of Peking University and claimed to have "overthrown modern physics", challenging "all scientists" in China. Most Chinese physicists then ignored Guo, because when some of them questioned him about the "concepts", he refused to answer their questions. He is also reported to be rather rude with scholars trying to offer him genuine advice.
