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I like your ideas. I especially like your concept of "semi-existing." Indeterminacy and uncertainty are very important themes in contemporary physics, and most people who are not already physicists are looking for certainty. You're ahead of the game.All great scientific ideas start with a great intuition. Previous answers here, many of them from advanced physics students, are well-meaning but miss the point. There are about one million physicists in the world. Physicists are plentiful. Great intuitions are rare. Is yours great? It's not clear yet but don't be discouraged or make decisions about it based on advice from people who know something about physics but little about intuition.Here are my suggestions for you.Start learning the math. You already have the key ingredient of enthusiasm, math is the way to think about and communicate your intuitions with precision. Don't be put-off by the difficult-sounding names of math topics mentioned in other answers. Take all the math you can at your school and work hard to excel at it. Math proceeds one step at a time. You have one big advantage over many of those advanced physics students. You're starting earlier than they did.Consider a science fair project. Your theory is a cosmological one, a "theory of everything." Cosmological theories at some point involve astronomy. If you're going to theorize about the universe, you have to look at it and a great way is through a telescope. An astronomy-related science fair project would be a first step toward doing your own research. This link has information on science fairs in many countries. It's focused on environmental science, but it's a start. International Partner Science Fair Organizations. Get in touch with an organization in your country and ask them to refer you to more general science fair resources.Your concept of finding someone to write out your ideas is logical. In practice, you will need to learn the math and write your ideas yourself. When you do, you'll find that the math and the ideas are inseparable, but meanwhile the search for such a person could teach you a lot. Start at a local university. Call the physics or astronomy department and try to get a person on the line. Don't start right in talking about your theory. Tell them your age and grade in school. Ask if there is a member of the department who would be willing to have a brief conversation with you. Mention the science fair idea. University professors are busy people but someone may remember what it was like to be young and love science. I know I do.When you've got the name of someone, do a little research on the person online. There will likely be a short biography on the University or Department website. Make a few notes on their interests and the books or papers they've published.Call and ask for a 15-minute appointment in person. Your purpose is to get suggestions on scientific research that a young person could do for a science fair project. Bring a notebook and write down any advice you get. At some point, be prepared to give a brief explanation of your theory. Don't bring a lot of charts, but a few neatly written notes on paper. Be respectful, open-minded, and patient. Say something like "I want to study physics so I can test my ideas." Say "I understand that your research is in Such-and-such. What's the best way to prepare to do research in that area?"Start a notebook of your ideas now, even before you study physics, and keep it going while you do. Catch them now and you'll have a supply of them to dig into in your 20s and 30s and beyond. The time will come when you'll be glad to have them, when your colleagues are discouraged and running out of ideas. Write neatly so your older self can read and be inspired, both by the ideas and by remembering what it was like to be overflowing with them.Don't be in too much of a hurry to publish. There's lots of time for that. Publication is the last stage of the process.Here's the really good news. Intuitions come most often to people who've experienced them before. You have lots of them ahead, and some of them may be great. One thing is sure: wise people look for great intuitions among people who have had one.Don't be discouraged by people who talk about how hard it's going to be. Everything is difficult until you do it.Note on how many physicists there are in the world.http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/the-dayside/one-million-physicists-a-dayside-post

Doing original math research at any point in your life is extremely hard. Doing it as a high-school student, before you have the sort of background that one typically needs, is even harder, at least if done honestly. I mentor high-school students on math research projects, and I try to impress upon them how challenging it is before they start, lest they have the wrong expectations. Read my essay on the matter at Thoughts on research.Still, it is possible for a high-school student, who is sufficiently dedicated, to do original mathematics research. So far, I have written four papers with high-school students: they are linked from Student Research. There are several more that are expected to be ready in the next few months as well. These projects are the result of around 2 years of hard work, mostly on the part of the students but also on my part as the mentor. There are no shortcuts, and I won’t tell the students how to solve their problems because I pity them. Actually I couldn’t even if I wanted to: the whole point of research is that no one (including me) knows how to solve these problems. I guarantee nothing: a student can work very hard for years, doing everything right, and still not have a research project. I try to choose projects where the chances of success are higher than usual, but I promise nothing, and anyone who promises results is lying about one of two things: either about the promise, or about it being research.There are lots of problems out that there are approachable for a high-school student; the challenge is to find them. I’m always looking: every talk I go to, every paper I read, I’m paying attention and trying to figure out if there are problems that I’m interested in that a high-school student may have a hope of making some progress on. These problems aren’t limited to combinatorics and graph theory, or random rings that no one else has bothered to study. Many areas of mathematics have accessible problems.For the most part, I feel that high-school research is a gimmick. I would prefer that students learn more mathematics, say abstract algebra, or analysis, rather than try to do original research. I try to use research as an opportunity to help students learn those subjects. Best to master the basics first, then use what you have learned as tools for solving new problems, rather than trying to make up the tools yourself or picking them up in small pieces on a need-to-know basis.And whatever the media may say about high-school science fairs, no, these high-school students are not revolutionizing their subjects. As exceptional as these students may be, they are nowhere even remotely close to the level of solid professional mathematicians. A person who believes what the media has to say about science fairs would be forgiven for wondering why we haven’t solved all the problems in the world yet: if high-school students are making real progress on them, surely the real experts should be done with them. Of course, the real explanation is that high-school students are not making real progress on them, but it makes the science fairs and their sponsors look good to promote them irresponsibly.

My 7th grade science fair project was on light diffraction and invisibility with Calcite crystals. I got a C because, and I quote, “you didn't use the scientific method enough. You created an experiment but you didn't exactly have a control group like growing plants with and without music would have had.” Looking back, I now realised that this was total and utter bullshit. I may not have had a control group as in different types of lasers and crystals but I certainly had a control variable such as my laser pointer and crystals not moving while the angles one was observing the crystal did change.In High School, I wrote a research paper about how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was fascinated with Indian and Eastern cultures (Victorian Imperialism, boo) and how he wrote his fascination of Eastern cultures and their philosophies into his mystery novels such as Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Cloomber. I got a C. And, if you’re wondering about how well my essay was grammatically structured, I had had both my parents and grandparents read it, before turning it in.Following this incident, I realised that I could have written 8 pages about the history of toilets and as long as I had written something with a decent style and grammatical structure, I would surely have gotten an A or B.Ergo, the following year for my research paper, I essentially decided to write about how YouTube helped millenials make friends, and I shit you not I quoted books “written” by YouTubers as my evidence and I got a B.