This is absolutely the best thread I've seen in years. It's
educational, thought provoking, entertaining, and revealing about the
human psyche.

The thread reminds of some of those that I monitor from time to time
regarding aeronautics and fluid dynamics on the topic of how an
airplane wing generates lift. Believe or not, there is still no
consensus after 100+ years. It's interesting in that it parallels this
thread in many ways -- attempting to interpret various abstract
mathmatical definitions of a physical process in a way that it "makes
sense." We're fortunate in that such things don't actually have to
make sense to work.

Al