This is fantastic! It would be awesome if there were workshops, say, of 3 months duration, where people from totally unrelated disciplines are put together with no pre-knowledge and see if anything useful will come out of it. Most of the time, nothing may come out of this, but every now and then spectacular advances may come about, I'm sure (for an example, see Adleman's development of DNA Computing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing#History).

The problem is that decades of work in a narrow field, although it makes you an expert, also dulls an outsider's novel look to the subject and leaves you with numerous explicit and, more dangerously, implicit dogmas/assumptions.