Flavio,

Thank you for the compliment, but I'm not a professor, just "eating around the edges," as you say. Though I've come to realize the politics of physics has had a far greater influence than is acknowledged and a lot of what passes for complicated are efforts to patch over initial flaws, that became accepted wisdom before being fully understood.

I do think the entire notion of a finite universe will eventually fall apart, but not without a lot more evidence and arguing.

Here is an article, of some years ago, by someone with a more informed view;

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/modern-cosmology-science-or-folktale

Here is a interview with Carver Mead, that gives some sense of how the larger field of physics has evolved;

http://worrydream.com/refs/Mead%20-%20American%20Spectator%20Interview.html