A Si Fi watchmaker.

[Aoi Magi]

Brian in this instance you are acting like the church that silenced Galileo because they believed something was correct and wouldn't hear of anything else. From a scientific standpoint you are right that this particular idea is wrong, but that doesn't mean nobody can speculate on it just for fun. There are many ideas which scientists in the past would have called utterly impossible based on the data they had at that point in time. If everybody relied only on that data and shut off all other ideas, our progress would have halted right there. Sci-fi isn't being taught as fact in schools rather it's called sci-fi because people recognize it as fictional, and it is just for fun.