This Island Universe

Big Science Babble - It's not just for cosmology.

If anything the standard model of particle physics is even more absurd, incoherent and illogical than its cosmological counterpart as this article demonstrates. They are in fact of a piece because both standard models rest on the philosophical conceit of mathematicism. In the…

Another model-fitting triumph for the cult of mathematicism:

"The bright, early galaxies that JWST sees as “little red dots” are most likely not as massive as astronomers and astrophysicists originally thought. But only by:"

Academic scientists don't care what others believe but they care greatly what they believe - because only their beliefs matter to them. In this they are like fundamentalist believers of any stripe. Their beliefs are true because they are scientists and science is infallible in some fundamental way that is central to their sense of self.

The "Universe" is the central misconception of modern cosmology. The Cosmos we observe is not a unified, coherent, simultaneously existing entity. 

The expanding gas bag model was ill conceived 100 years ago but it had the excuse that little was then known about the Cosmos when it was adopted. Now the model is a decrepit relic devoid of any…

Polar coordinates are the only appropriate framing for cosmological considerations. We are at the center of our observable Cosmos and that Cosmos is arrayed omnidirectionally about us. This is only a point-of-view consideration of course - we are not at the center of the Cosmos, only at the center of our visual horizon. Polar coordinates fit that…