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If you read comments to this article, it's hard to not notice that most commenters discuss angels dancing on the head of a pin.

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What's wrong with imagination, hypothesis and a simple analogy that can reach out to the masses? One might argue that your approach to science as only a set of facts based on formula is boring at best. One needs to ponder the meaning behind the formula and results. Yes, we got a number, but what is the implication of it? After all, doesn't science exist to satisfy our curiosity about the world in the first place?

Because now we have infinitely many imaginary hypotheses, and we can't resolve their differences since we have not enough facts, and ones that are ornate and humane tend to capture most attention.

But universe is made with inhumane ways, it's complex where it's not expected and it's simple where we expect more. It's never intuitive.

It's a blind alley. Doesn't help us find the exit from labyrinth.

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