[austin-cheney]

Sigh. The cosmological model came into being after several years of academic discussions and finally crystallized around 1978, I believe. Plans for the Hubble didn’t even exist then. All people knew is what they could see from Earth surface and it was fine until later observations became absurdly contradictory comparing the math to known physics from agreed upon physics almost a century earlier. So… you solve for the math. You aren’t going to get a better cosmological model by observing distant galaxies from Earth surface. The only other options are abandoning the entirety of the cosmological model without a replacement or abandoning Einstein physics, which is worse.

That still does not make something entirely without evidence thrust into existence. It certainly doesn’t explain the level of emotional investment. Your only arguments supporting your position are purely social conduct: expertise, agreement, confidence, and apparent sadness. These are not observations. They are not physics proofs. They aren’t even measurements. They are the equivalent of the church calling Galileo a heretic. You call my opinion absurd only because it, according to your own words, inconveniences you, god forbid.

Actual science has been slowly chipping away at the social stupidity of this subject. Here is yet another potential example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38215274