[Aedes]

Originally Posted by Donald Schneider

You have attempted to refute my proof, which I am not prepared to concede you have yet done. Anyone reading here who is also sufficiently interested in such matters may read our discourse and come to his or her own conclusions.

I have not actually attempted to refute your proof, because I am not interested in teasing apart your logic. That's not the issue. The problem is that your proof is devoid of any empirical verifiability, and it's at odds with some of the most basic tenets of physics; and therefore it is like a good novel -- realistic without being real. Since there exists nowhere in physics evidence of forces coming from outside the material constituents of the universe, you're without any empirical basis to necessitate that there ever was such a phenomenon. And without an empirical basis, I am happy to place your proof alongside those of Leibniz and Descartes and Duns Scotus, etc, but I'm not prepared to place it alongside the work of Einstein and Weinberg and Preskill and the modern physics establishment.