And at 30 seconds the first will be ahead, and at 40 the second, at 50 the first, etc.

They are going to continue to bounce until they they are interrupted, at which point will determine which one "provides higher DPS"

Neither of us is RIGHT, which my argument clearly shows, and which was one of the things implied by "Neither is a large determining factor in your overall DPS".

As well, changing the cast times doesn't matter, IF ALL thunders were calculated under the same cast time. The ratio between the 2 end results will always be the same as long as the same variable was changed in both. In fact, the final result, whether the NUMBERS are right or not, does not matter. Only the ratio between the 2 numbers is what was being discussed.

I could use made up numbers, as long as I used the same numbers for each variable in each equation.