I find the issue goes to basic logic that contradicts the beliefs of the establishment.

Two points I keep making over the decades that stand out for me, are 1, that we look at time backward.

As these mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the point of the present moving past to future, which physics codifies as measures of duration, when the evident fact is that activity and the resulting change turn future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

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

Energy goes past to future, because the patterns it generates coalesce and dissolve, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

The interesting thing is that while anyone in the various fields of physics will either dismiss this or ignore it and the few that get further into the debate drop it when they run out of counter arguments, one field I have had general interest shown, is neurology, because of the fact consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it is the digestive system processing the energy, while the nervous system sorts the information, with the circulation system as feedback between the two. Suffice to say, the issue of consciousness is not yet set in the stone of dogma, so there are no detrimental career implications for considering new ideas.

The other issue is that Big Bang Theory still explicitly uses the speed of light as the denominator, the general metric against which this expansion is calibrated, making it the true metric of space being used, meaning the expansion can only be the numerator, increasing distance in this underlaying metric.

I've even had people say that it seems logical, but it can't be true, because so many cosmologists, not to mention the general culture, believe otherwise.

To which I point out that the larger the crowd, the more it is about management, than exploration. More Tim Cook, than Steve Jobs. The bureaucracy goes into self preservation mode.

At that point, I go out and do some yard work.