&quot;Appeal to authority&quot; is more than &quot;mentioning the existence of authorities&quot;. This is not an appeal to authority.<p>The point is, if the answer was as simple as that, <i>it wouldn&#x27;t be a problem</i>. This is not news. This is a century+ old conundrum, and you can&#x27;t solve it by simply reciting Physics 101 as if that&#x27;s it, book closed. It&#x27;s the equivalent of listening to a operating systems researcher describe a thorny problem in the creation of a multitasking operating system on a hundred-core NUMA system, and then pedantically, slowly, patronizingly explaining back to them how functions work by pushing things on to a stack and then popping them afterwards.<p>When they favor you afterwards with a deeply shocked expression, it&#x27;s not in amazement at your penetrating insights.