Ethan is more cheerleader than critical observer.
Personally I don't think you need to go very far into the more complex fields to punch holes in much of current dogma. I posted what I see as the most obvious example as a comment on Ethan's essay, but since he is such a fan of the current cosmological model, I'll point out what is the most salient hole in it;
Consider that Big Bang theory can't be falsified, as whenever there is a gap between prediction and observation, some enormous new force of nature is assumed, to fill the gap. It's like epicycles on steriods.
Before Inflation, Dark Matter and Energy, the original patch was when they realized that as redshift increases proportional to distance in all directions, it makes us appear to be at the center of this expansion. So it was changed from an expansion in space, to an expansion of space, because Spacetime!
Which totally ignores the central premise of Special Relativity, that the speed of light is constant in all frames. If it's being redshifted, intergalactic light is not constant to intergalactic space. More lightyears, not stretched lightyears.
In classic doppler shift, it's changing distance, not space. The train moving down the tracks doesn't stretch the tracks and in this theory, the speed of light is still assumed to be the "ruler."
Now if you model light as a wavy line and stretch it out, the effect models redshift, but that's not how light works. It is totally illogical to argue the speed and spectrum of the very same light reference totally different metrics of space.
We are at the center of our point of view, so Occam's razor suggests an optical cause for redshift and it has been proven that multispectrum light "packets" do redshift over distance, as the higher frequencies dissipate faster, yet that would mean we are sampling a wave front, not observing individual photons travelling billions of lightyears. Which raises questions about whether photons are point particles, or just the smallest measureable units our testing devices absorb....
Safe to say, I've been banned from a number of sites for pointing this out.
Good luck speaking out. Hopefully not too many generations of theorists come and go, before the reductio ad absurdum just gets too deep to spend careers digging through.
