Suggesting a local phenomenon is the result of a field we have no reason to believe exists carried by particles we have no reason to believe exist with no known characteristics or methods to detect it isn't an invitation to investigation. When such theorists have obtained at least a hypothesis they are welcome to advance it.
If Hacker News lasts for hundreds of years, people may look back on this thread as an example of how some were on the right rack and some were heading to a dead end.
"Leucippus and his pupil Democritus proposed that all matter was composed of small indivisible particles called atoms... They are constantly moving and colliding into each other."
