Discussions are like storms that tempest to and fro across an ocean region that often extends beyond the boundaries of the topic, but as long as the topic still anchors the discussion this is not a problem. It cannot reasonably be expected that every message or sequence of messages be on-topic, but we can't have gusts of discussion taking off for parts unknown.
Or for another analogy, discussions are like solar systems with planets of focus that stay relatively close to the central topic represented by the sun, and while the occasional excursion out to the Oort Cloud is fine (the question about fabric of space in the case of this thread), we can't have pieces of the discussion blasting off for Andromeda (Mayer's ideas).
Alfred, you have a thread to discuss Mayer's ideas over at
The New Cosmology of Mr. Mayer. Please confine discussion of that topic to that thread or you will lose your posting privileges in
Big Bang and Cosmology again.
Edited by Admin, : Grammar.
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