Given the degree to which such concepts as string theory and multiverses have over today's establishment, the old adage that the more we know, the more we know we don't know comes to mind.

Do we keep wading forward, or is it possible to reset and go back to some degree of basics, to consider what might be overlooked? Though it might require a few funerals.

Math seem to be the gold standard, but it is descriptive, not explanatory. The map, not the territory. Epicycles were brilliant math, as a predictively accurate descriptions of our view of the cosmos, but it proved erroneous to presume the physical explanations of crystalline spheres, based on them.

One issue that I see, as a complete outsider, is assuming the narrative flow, from past to future, as fundamental. Logically it is change, turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yestrday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, sound. Think frequency and amplitude.

Similarly the three dimensions of space really are just a mapping device, to describe space, not foundational to it. The xyz coordiante system. It is no more foundational to space, than longitude, latitude and altitude are foundational to the biosphere of this planet. Descriptive, not explantory.

I could go on, but the primary response i get to these points, from people within the scientific community, is silence. There is just too much insitutional momentum and too few willing to question the consensus.

Meanwhile decades and generations are spent developing theories based on foundationally flawed assumptions.