Garrett Lisi (the E8 guy, aka surferdude) and dare I say Stephen Wolfram (the mathematica guy) like types would fit the bill nicely, if they are ever proven right in their outlandish theories (which remains to be seen).
That's exactly the reason why nobody in the field will take them very seriously, if some outsider would come along with a working theory of the universe and en-passent come up with a GUT that would pass inspection a lot of people would look pretty silly.
I think the chances of that happening are very small, but every now and then one of these guys comes up with something that is not trivial to dispose of.
If there is one thing all great scientific discoveries had in common then it is that when they were first posited a number of people thought 'rubbish'.
That does not mean that all rubbish will eventually be accepted as the new established theory.
That's exactly the reason why nobody in the field will take them very seriously, if some outsider would come along with a working theory of the universe and en-passent come up with a GUT that would pass inspection a lot of people would look pretty silly.
I think the chances of that happening are very small, but every now and then one of these guys comes up with something that is not trivial to dispose of.
If there is one thing all great scientific discoveries had in common then it is that when they were first posited a number of people thought 'rubbish'.
That does not mean that all rubbish will eventually be accepted as the new established theory.