Just, by the way.

We are doing some exploration of questions to which no one we’ve ever seen has demonstrated an answer. Right? So if you don’t know exactly how to solve, or even perfectly clearly how to crystal-clearly formulate the question as you work, that’s as it should be. It would be weird if, before being the first ones to solve this question, you were already the only people on the planet who knew the answer. 

Most importantly, try and see me when you first hit even a small-to-medium sized wall. If we can get you un-stuck within a short period of time, then you all can be back off doing your thing and we’re back in parallel. It’d be a shame if you were blocking on just not wanting to be a bother, or something like that.

"The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."
In Einstein and Infeld, Evolution of Physics (1938)

Carl Friedrich Gauss said after a eureka moment: "I have the result, only I do not yet know how to get to it."

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.— Bertrand Russell
Philosophy of Logical Atomism, 1918

I just wanted to make sure you all knew recent discussions mean, IMO, you all are on the right track.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …”
— Isaac Asimov

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