Georger, I don't think the only two things to be found on Cooper's tie are things he used to light cigarettes with and the entire contents of a cathode ray tube. I want to understand what particles may come from elsewhere. And he had just constructed the device in his briefcase. Probably a contributor to the tie.
In order to understand the particles, I want to figure out first if the bomb was real or fake, or what the odds are. If it was real, it might mean subtracting one set of particles from the McCrone data; if it was fake, a different set. This is why I am interested.
As far as "guessing," what would you suggest someone does when profiling a serial killer? Never try to envision motive? Should the cops entirely forego asking if the victim had any enemies, or why they might have gone into an alley late at night?
I know you like to stick to the "facts," as you see them, but you cannot remove brainstorming from any process and expect it to work. I seem to run into this with you every time others are finally engaging in back and forth with me - you try to stamp out my ideas.
I am not doing anything incorrectly. I am not doing anything immoral. I am not taking a crap on testimony. I am not harming this already dead investigation in any way by trying to eyeball the odds on a bomb being real. I wasn't doing anything wrong when I observed that the T-bar bills appeared - to me - to be cut, referenced a scientist who thought so as well, and offered an alternate hypothesis (did I use the right word? Not 'theory'?) And I won't be doing anything wrong when I try to ask the next questions I offer up.
If you want to control content, start a blog. In the meantime, lay off, Georger. Let's be friends.