I'm not going to discourage college for anyone who wants to contribute to physics, but you have a good point. Physics certainly could benefit from original thinking, because an incredible number of physicists were taught the older theories first, and then have to build upon that knowledge.
If you were to become an expert at mathematics (I'd suggest college, but one can get excellent mathematical skill w/o college), and THEN foray into physics, you might be able to offer insights and solutions that others might not see.
Both Newton's and Einstein's great contributions were from a mathematical foundation, and often needed new thinking in math to forward.
A PhD in math before becoming a physicist might suit someone like you.
El_Machinae
Hola.. Thanks for the support on the need to go out on a limb at times... I've been hearing the opposite from the too many parrots out there who want to play it safe... To no one's advantage... Your note is a breath of fresh air...

College courses are necessary in almost all cases of the more complicated processes we deal with today. There aren't many people out there who can know things instinctively...

But I'm sure in this case, colleges have become locked into passing on the continuous 'advances' that are made in the wrong direction. The instructors and boards are people too, and everyone has bonded with time here on earth... They see it as their friend. But unfortunately it turns out to be the enemy when put into space...
The cosmos does not sue anyone for being wrong. Not even the school for teaching it wrong. They would get sued though, if they taught outside the 'accepted' realm of thought. By the people who took their courses and found the rest of the world wasn't dealing with that truer concept. So physicist don't really need to be
exactly correct. They can 'theorize' to their heart's content... It's a job like building bombs. No one complains when they don't work. They just keep building new ones... ha!
Colleges are passing on what is claimed to be proven, workable, factual pieces of knowledge that one must believe..., no matter how weird. Not many, including the schools, dare step out of line or they will be trampled by the herd. Of course *most* of it is logical, workable, and real.., but where it's wrong.., it's mind bogglingly wrong... Time is screwing up everyone's mind and every other atom in the universe. It seems to me now to be an unstoppable avalanche of trash...
All those mathematical formulae that are based on it really need to be forgotten and never used again. Perhaps rewritten to include what is physical only.
I understand the thought about the math... But...

There are things that do not need to be proven with math... You can't prove a negative, with math or whatever. That time does not exist, as in this case... But I can easily envision the cosmos without time... That it's a continuous analog movement without the need for time. Simply continued by natural forces. All of those actions out there are what create what WE see as time, but then don't need it themselves... No time is necessary... As my steak in the freezer is thinking it's still warm and cozy from just being cut from the flank of a steer.., it doesn't know that a year of earth's time has passed... It's physical operations are slowed by being frozen... Not because time slowed inside the freezer... People just have to get smarter, you know..?
Gravity is the same as my freezer... Except for there being different degrees in different areas of the cosmos. The various specific gravity fields. Instead of so called 'time dilated' areas. Like 'time' itself is controlling the hands of the clock..? lol How does the clock know time slowed down..? When the clock is simply recording the difference in gravity it experiences at different points in space and/or velocity, as opposed to the specific gravity it was 'built' to work in. That of earth, to keep track of where its meridian was at any one point in its revolution.
No need to know math to know that...
As for the math needed to replace time..? That can be done with simple algebra... As in a few of my previous posts... The amounts of gravity throughout the cosmos is the true relativity... When that is accepted, all the paradox's melt away. Everything is clearly explained. One can actually visualize how everything works in harmony... At least I can. Math may be needed to work out fine, fine details.., but really..., putting a clock anywhere will only measure the gravity difference between earth and that other point. Or use a gravimeter if you want to be technical..

But the clock and the gravimeter will compare favorably, I'm sure. Gravity relativity can then be mapped all over the place.., as they've done with the geoid...
As that geoid btw show different parts of earth are aging at different speeds too... At the atomic level and below... Is that not all perfectly logical..? I've been asking where anyone can say it's not., and why... I'm ready to be proven wrong... It would be easier on me to know I am than to have to keep putting up with trolls and SR devotees...
My basic thought.., not requiring math at all.., is that man has taken the concept of time., from his imagination, and caused it to be a working factor of the cosmos. That simple mistake has created the concept of time dilation, time travel, multiple universes, worm holes, holograms from black holes, and a host of other totally weird things going on out there... So... All I know.., which takes no math to understand.., is that when time is gone.., all the rest of that will go poof..., and disappear... We'll then and only then.., come to see the cosmos as it really is... We'll have the theory of everything...
And Einstein was rotten at math himself... And he tried to forget gravity existed...
So his time now, running wild in the math, is deluding everyone.
In any case.., thanks again for the understanding of what should be thought about..