Epicycles were brilliant math, as a modeling of a geocentric cosmology, that is still our physical point of view.

It used to be that when observation didn't match prediction, the underlaying theory was potentially falsified, but once it becomes doctrine, it can only be patched.

What if your accountant could just write in a figure and call it Dark Money, whenever he found a gap in the books?

If intergalactic space expands, why doesn't the speed of the light crossing it increase proportionally, in order to remain constant?

Current cosmology assumes two metrics, based on the speed and spectrum of the same light, then uses speed as the measure of this, "expanding space," even though it argues the light travels at a different rate than this expansion. What is the speed of light measuring, if not the space????

One would think the more people working on a problem, the more likely solutions will be found, but the opposite effect seems to be the result. That the sociology of groupthink overwhelms any clarity of thought.