I swear to god, "whistling dixie out of your black holes" is probably the coolest combination of words I've ever seen!
I don't have a degree or anything, but I like to think I have an alright handle on things. Mostly from reading, although I don't know how smart that makes me.
The whole field theory is pretty well-secured, though. After seeing the island vanish like that, the watch experiment by Faraday, and the navigation interference, I would say that according to the stuff we know, there's no way the space around the island is the same as the space, say, around my house.
That's the basis for me and the field thing.
Everything else, the connections I've made, yes, right out the black hole, and whistlin' like mad.
But thank you very much, your praise is entirely undeserved.
Deevo should definitely win.