http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/02/radio_breakthrough/
...and this isn’t even some freaky new understanding of reality, seems it’s a fairly simple “hey, what if...” with profound consequences.
I just read a book about Marconi. He was a complete physics illiterate. He was too ignorant to know what couldn’t be done.
eg. Since Marconi first demonstrated wireless communications in 1895
He was not the first to demonstrate wireless communications. A British scientist beat him and invented the primary device that made it possible. (haven't got the book here to supply the details). But this scientist thought it would never be more than a scientific oddity since he believed radio waves had to be line of sight and communications over distances of more than a few feet would ever be possible so he dropped the subject.