OK, on the advice of others in the SE network, I'll refrain from deleting those comment discussions in their entirety right away. Some of the comments posted have no useful physics content, and those will be deleted as normal, but the rest I'll leave alone at least until there has been ample time to incorporate any relevant physics into the questions and answers.
At the same time, I would like to remind everyone that the comment section isn't really meant for extended discussions like these. Ideally, the discussions should have been moved to a chat room before they got so long - it's as simple as posting Let's take this to [chat] after the first 6 or 7 messages. Discussions that take place in chat are always preserved forever. Let's try to keep that in mind for the future.