Michael Harmon
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

And so it goes, and so it goes. With every new discovery we learn one thing consistently, but never quite incorporate it into our thinking. That one thing is this: Science is the cataloging of local relationships, the fullest implications of which are insufficient to infer what lies beyond.

Like Godel’s incompleteness theorem, we cannot make accurate theories about the bulk of the universe beyond the empirical data set. Yet, every last cosmology we ever devised is couched in terms of universal applicability. The certainty with which this article ends is classic evidence of this glaring delusion.

Inflation? It’s a total pile. Inflation is the coping mechanism for thinking the big bang came from a dimensionless point instead of a typical physical structure of the larger scale universe. We do not know the origin of the universe (much less the Big Bang). Neither do we know it’s “fate.” Nor will we. Ever.

How hard can it be? The universe holds infinite information, the full diversity of which will never be depicted by humans. All we get is local relationships and local certainty. We cannot know the beginning, the end nor the extent in either the infinite or infinitesimal. Take it to the bank already.

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