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You should find out who the prominent academics are in this field of research, and email them asking if you can send them a draft of your paper and asking for their opinion.
Stay humble and remember that academics (especially notable ones) get harassed by crackpots all the time, so you need to distinguish yourself from them by not assuming that you're the second coming of Einstein.
If you're really on to something (or not) then they will be able to tell you that before you potentially embarrass yourself by uploading a preprint to arXiv that may have obvious deficiencies.
Bare in mind that it's rare that laymen revolutionise a field of research without already having been part of the research community.
Good luck!
Best first step towards what you’re suggesting is probably for him to contact a local college and find someone there who can help identify the prominent academics to approach. Being able to say “Dr. Smith recommended I reach out to you about this” is going to be taken much more seriously than a cold call. Also, at least reading any public discussion threads that person is on before contacting them will give you a feel for how they communicate and what they think is important.
Thank you for your insight! Isn't there a risk if I send someone my work they might snipe it and publish it as their own?
If someone steals your work and doesn't credit you then they are risking ending their career when you turn up with the receipts.
If you're worried about that happening, then just have your manuscript notarized so that you can later prove that it existed at a certain point in time.
Frankly, yes there is. However, the same can essentially be said about posting a preprint somewhere online. Some asshole could still rip it off and submit it to a journal. Most likely the reviewers won't have come across your preprint, and if you accuse them of stealing your idea, they'll just claim independently discovering the same thing.
The only way you can really stay air-tight is writing up a proper article and submitting it to a journal. That can be a tough process to get through though, so you may be better off finding someone in the academic world that you are willing to trust.
In most fields, there are some people that float between industry and academia, so you may find someone that a common acquaintance can vouch for.
A possible protection for OP and anyone else reading this could be to upload a draft of a report to a repository at osf.io (Open Science Foundation). You can keep the repository hidden for now, but it'll be there with a date stamp on it should the worst happen and somebody rip off the work
Happy cake day!