Remember when Einstein released SR and it was said that only 1 man understood it. The domino effect of that 1 man was massive. We are not disproving, we are standing on the shoulders of giants and understanding deeper what they were looking at. They used terms to replace observers such as north and south or positive or negative. Einstein just missed Maxwell's mistake, because of Newtons mistake and them men changed our world so we can hardly say it was an obvious mistake given their lack of knowledge of the plasma and electrical laws of motion that we know now.
When one hears about Einstein's great work. You have to be rather careful. What you are often NOT being told or seeing, is the countless other theories that Einstein and thousands or even millions of others, created in their minds, and sometimes on paper. Which after consideration by the author(s), other scientists or people, various reviews and publishing options, and so on. Possibly even moving on to the experimentation stage and/or comparison with measurable/observable things, such as stars in our galaxy.
So, although a few (very few really), of those upcoming, gems of new ideas/theories/inventions occurred, over the last hundreds or even thousands or more years. The vast bulk of them (thousands, millions, maybe even billions of them), failed because of one or more faults/mistakes/misunderstandings in their original ideas.
I.e. For every successful idea/theory/invention/patent, there have probably been hundreds, thousands or even considerably more things which failed to work out, and so have generally been forgotten over the years, and disappeared from our collective (world wide) knowledge base.
Take rubber as an example (I'm saying this from memory, so may be mixed up about it). It took someone/people, hundreds of different experiments, to find a formulation of rubber, that actually worked, to make a (relatively) long lasting material, which didn't horribly deteriorate, after only a few weeks.
Ironically, none of those hundreds or thousands of experimental chemical mixes actually worked, but one day there was an accident in the lab, and 'something' (Sulfur) was accidentally knocked onto the experimental rubber setup. Amazingly, the new rubber worked out very well, and lasted a long time.
Apparently, it took many hundreds of further experiments (finding the exact relative quantities, may also have been an issue), to find out what substance(s), had been accidentally mixed into the rubber experiment, to make it last so long.
Hence vulcanization (by adding Sulfur), was invented (strictly speaking (partly accidentally) discovered).
So one really needs to go through various ways in which, your new idea, might be wrong/mistaken or in difficulties. Discover those issue(s), now. Then suitably modify your idea(s), or abandon them, for better future ideas.
Analogy:
The original inventor of rubber vulcanization. Might have initially tried mixing it with honey, with terrible results. Almost everyone told them honey was no good, and the experiments showed that rubber + honey = a messy substance, which falls apart, almost immediately, smells funny after a few days, and attracts flies like crazy. It also makes your fingers sticky, after handling it.
Therefore, the right thing is to try another substance, or hundreds more, and move on. If the original inventor had obsessively stuck with honey, as the vulcanization method/substance. We probably would never have heard of the inventor of rubber, and they perhaps would have lived the rest of their lives, as a penniless person, unknown to others, who brings this smelly fly attracting, black gooey mess with them, where ever they go.
TL;DR
Does your theories have any significant flaws. If so, can they be fixed, or do you need to move on, to a new, better idea/theory/possible-invention.
In other words, sadly. The vast bulk, perhaps 99.9% or even 99.99999999999999999999%, of new ideas, are no good, problematic, and not really worth pursing. If you want to be like Thomas Edison, then you have to move on and try/invent more stuff. Don't stick with the same thing all the time, if it has issues.
Thomas Edison and his helpers, had to try out thousands (very approximately, I'm not exactly sure), of different light bulb filament options. Until he/they found ones, which could light (without burning out), for a practically long enough time. Many tests worked, but the filament burnt out way too quickly, for practical use.