Thanks Craig and Steven for your time and contributions. As usual, I found it educational and enjoyable.
Who is to say what is impossible or ridiculous in science? It is through imagination, hypothesis, observation/research and analysis that the boundaries of the impossible can be tested.
I am reminded of the following three "laws" made by the eminent Arthur C. Clarke:
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Regards, Rob
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