Do I have to know all the thousand plus years of math incorporated into epicycles, to be able to understand why missing the fact we are not actually the center of the universe invalidated it as a physical theory?

I will certainly agree I might well be wrong, but it does seem modern physics has a sociology problem, of old ideas not quite ready to be discarded, even though the patches and pushing out the parameters has gone on for a few decades.

You don't have to ask me anything. I'm just trying to make the argument that rather than post empirical theories, more effort should be put into exploring the assumptions built into the current theories.

I understand the math is complicated, but only a fraction as complex as the reality it models.

Do our models overlook some of the necessary details?