I'm sure this has been said already (and I'm very late to this thread admittedly), but what is Gear Abstinence exactly?
I mean, is there a 'gear abstinence bosun' that scientists at CERN are actively looking for?
Or a team of mathematicians trying to solve the 'gear abstinence conundrum' hoping to win the Nobel maths prize for it.. Something a bit like this one maybe?.. which on balance, sounds quite close to gear abstinence actually ..
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YangβMills_existence_and_mass_gap
I mean, when I saw the 'it's the end of the world, help, the Apocalypse is coming! ' movie Deep Impact some years back, there were a few bass players in the final scenes studiously discussing the relative merits of a lightweight bass cab one of them had just bought, musing obliviously about the deep impact such an uber-lightweight cab that costs x thousand quid yet weighs less than - 500 nanograms blah, blah, blah would create in a crappy pub venue with a hollow stage and a big bass trap... π€ππ