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Originally Posted by Maksutov
Well, this is an astronomy and science BB.
A key component of science is to entertain all speculations, consider hypotheses that have supporting evidence, and then analyze these propositions in order to determine which are predictive enough to qualify as theories.
Without the speculation that is different from current thinking, this process would never get started.
Of course almost all ATM material gets bogged down in the hypothesis stage, but not all. That 1/1000 of one percent (or so) that makes it through that part of process is so valuable that it more than compensates for the balance which is correctly discarded.
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Exactly.
We try to provide a forum (literally) for people to nurture their ideas. There are (all too rare, admittedly) times when people take on board the suggestions and comments of people here and try to solve the problems that they hadn't thought of until getting others to look at their work or ideas.
Plus ... we live in hope