True; people with any sort of expertise will be less generous with their attention if it's clear that you won't make an effort to understand what it is you're challenging.
Additionally, is it really you that's mounting a challenge? Quoting you: "There's a 'fringe' theory ... the primary proponent ... if my understanding is correct it would still be compatible with ..." <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39674424>.
So,
> crackpot throwawaymaths idea
it is not really your idea, is it?
I see you as taking the position that you're entitled to require me to make efforts to assist you. I also note that what I did volunteer upthread, you rejected as "muddling the point". Fine. I think we've evaporated each other's conversational good will. Bye bye.
What you were doing was muddling the point. As best I can tell (and it was difficult to understand what you were saying), you were talking about summing blackbody radiation over time and distance. That's not what this model is.
Additionally, is it really you that's mounting a challenge? Quoting you: "There's a 'fringe' theory ... the primary proponent ... if my understanding is correct it would still be compatible with ..." <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39674424>.
So,
> crackpot throwawaymaths idea
it is not really your idea, is it?
I see you as taking the position that you're entitled to require me to make efforts to assist you. I also note that what I did volunteer upthread, you rejected as "muddling the point". Fine. I think we've evaporated each other's conversational good will. Bye bye.