Max Pop Physicist: Science Fiction

The physicist checked his value ranking before he went to the lab, and stopped, astounded. He had never ranked higher than the bottom hundred that cleared the recognize threshold, but today he was up to number 3! Not just on the physics boards, either, but on the widenet. He clicked through, trying desperately to figure out what was going on. Happy birthday wishes, lots of them. Ah. But a birthday alone was not enough--somebody had chosen him as the random celebrate his birthday because he gave us something nominee. He clicked through--and laughed. It had been a physics project when he was just a college student, when he wanted to try and get in good with the frats and so he came up with a beer-cooler that--


Inspiration: Google's doodle today is in honor of the physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz. I did my little bit of logomancy and ended up on a site that tracks trending topics on Twitter.
Story Potential: High.
Notes: So you're going to be famous for a day. One day only. What do you do to capitalize on it? And if you're a geeky sort of person, do you already have a plan for what to do, just in case? Like if I suddenly started making serious money from writing, I know who I'd hire to be my accountants. This could be a really fun brain exercise.