The biggest problem is that your theories are not going to equate to the depth, degree, and experience of people who've been over a decade in Universities studying their own, who receive grants and everything to do so. It may be a revolutionary theory, but every scientist has got their own. That's what you are competing against. Hell, there are plenty of brainiacs at each other's throats over whose theory they believe is right.

I have a personal theory that I believe can encompass a lot of phenomenon, but I lack the graduate level experience or the extraordinary intelligence to raise eyebrows, so it has to remain largely faith based. There are much more knowledgeable people who dismiss the basic core tenets of it. And unless you map it out onto some real math and start making predictions that can raise eyebrows, it will remain that, faith-based. Society doesn't give a shit about ideas, they give a shit about implementations of those ideas.