yes

why terrible idea

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Đorđe_Martinović_incident

Well research is always done off existing foundational theory. But one thing I know about modern physics is people are bad at explaining their work. I remember working through some of a book on statistical mechanics and there was two equation lines directly adjacent to one-another and it took me two and a half pages of work to show how to get there. I will hand it to them, though, it was terse.