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rysmiel wrote on 2004-05-04:

"reductio ad absurdum is a really stupid tool to use on scales other than that for which the human brain is optimised, because the further it is from what we are used to the less what seems absurd to us is a reasonable guide. Witness to a first approximation every development in physics since James Clerk Maxwell. There should probably be a metric for scaling how unlikely common sense is to fit any given problem."