fortunefaded,

I don't think NASA will just invite any high school kid based on a paper submitted out of high school physics. If he managed to get an invitation for NASA conference, he must have presented something intriguing. You can't judge a book by its cover. If you think he being 16 years old is a problem, please have a look here:

Pembroke Pines boy, 12, tackling a double major at FIU

http://www.miamiherald.com/486/story/1007907.html

And, talking about the physics and form of energies, even Einstein made fool of himself when he criticized Bohr's Quantum theory. Since so called "theory of everything - string theory" has yet to be verified at Lab (prolly CERN experiments may shed some light there in coming days),  I am open to any proposition that is evidence-based and has mathematical footing. Let's see what this kid has to offer in physics arena.....