...We are talking about a team of brilliant mathematicians here. If they think this is possible, it deserves at the very least serious consideration...to claim they don't know what they are talking about is a long stretch.
Lest we forget the cold fusion fiasco that the brilliant people on both sides of the Atlantic gave us.
There's a reason that you don't know the author(s) of a scientific paper, when its being refereed by other scientists.
Ideas are meant to be evaluated on their own merit, or in this case lack of merit.
...We are talking about a team of brilliant mathematicians here. If they think this is possible, it deserves at the very least serious consideration...to claim they don't know what they are talking about is a long stretch. Lest we forget the cold fusion fiasco that the brilliant people on both sides of the Atlantic gave us. There's a reason that you don't know the author(s) of a scientific paper, when its being refereed by other scientists. Ideas are meant to be evaluated on their own merit, or in this case lack of merit.