'It's an idea that's so far out there that it bypassed wrong and went straight to ridiculous.'

Given that its rival has generated speculation in extra dimensions curled up in the fabric of the cosmos and time travel and gateways to parallel universes and creating new universes by heating up a region of space to 10^29 degrees K and letting it rapidly cool and 70% of the universe made up of something very dark and mysterious...

I would say that EU would have to come up with some wayyyyyy crazy ideas to top that list!