>>If an alchemist has tried to turn wood into gold for 2 years and so far there's a few burnt fingers but no gold... do you declare that the burnt fingers are a sort of gold, or insist that "the alchemist is not finished" proves there will be mountains of gold any day now?
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>Nice analogy ;-)

...it would be if the alchemist was still generating tid bits of gold or silver lol.