12/ Intuition first, rigor second, a bright line between them. If the hunch is wrong, the surviving pieces are still real. If it is right, that is exactly why it was worth the swing.
1/ This is a hunch, not a result. I have been running a heterodox physics idea through agent systems as far as it will go, letting my intuition take big swings while keeping the rigorous parts rigorous. Here is where it landed. A thread.