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No. This is what blogs are for.
Why don't you post your question here? As-is you're not asking if a particular question is acceptable or not, but you're leaving it to us to imagine what you might post.
What is a thought-experiment that is based purely on mathematics?
Dear happyseaurchin,
to clarify, Qiaochu's comment on the main site informed you that asking about the suitability of the question was off-topic there; questions about suitability belong here. His response here, to your question about suitability, was no, such thought-experiments would be inappropriate on MathOverflow.
That all said, Ryan Budney's suggestion above is sensible. The rules are much looser here, and no one will get too annoyed no matter what you do.
Dear happyseaurchin,
no, I don't think you should start another discussion. This one should suffice, I think. As others have said above, this isn't really the best place for what you're proposing, but we are perfectly willing to consider questions of the form "Is the following question appropriate for MathOverflow: ...". You should probably anticipate the answer to this being no, given the above, but you may also find some readers of meta volunteering further feedback.
Just realised there is some lengthy story on this on math.SE...but most seems to be gone.
You seem to be looking for a discussion forum -- there are many out there. The Q&A format is specifically designed to minimize discussion, so I agree it does not appear to be the kind of thing you're looking for.
Suggestion to moderators: this thread has outlived its usefulness.
@Yemon,
Yeah, you'd think I'd be better at noticing these things myself, but for some reason it always requires prompting --- so thanks.
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