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Cosmology feels a lot like quackery these days.

Does it even bother to rely on physics? Physical experiments show explosions do not propel all matter at the same rate.

James Webb telescope recently found galaxies that were “too old”, would have formed right after the Big Bang. The prevailing wisdom was all matter spread out evenly due to the Big Bang, then coalesced into galaxies (I emailed various researchers to confirm I understood this was indeed the consensus).

But again, other physics shows that clusters of matter ejected from explosions are never uniformly distributed.

Just more evidence the well educated (I assume if it’s concensus driven even the best educated agree) are just typical people and their expertise should be challenged constantly rather than sit back and assume things are figured out.

As Asimov illustrated in the Foundation, if you aren’t measuring for yourself you’re serving someone else’s interpretation.

Hyper-normalized social society just leads to normalization of outputs, which helps preserve and propagate poor science.

parent gagaJo 2 years ago

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