I think there is a lot of space for math to productively grow, if it was to understand how it fits in the larger reality.

Consider epicycles were brilliant math, as a model of our view of the cosmos, but the crystalline spheres were lousy physics, as explanation.

Basically the situation is similar today, with math being treated as the highest form of knowledge, so everything follows from it.

Consider time; As 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 present moving past to future. It is the basis of civilization and culture, as narrative, while theoretical physics models it as measures of duration, aka, dimension of time.

The reality is activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events coalesce and dissolve.

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 is "conserved," because it manifest this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

Energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall.

Ideal gas laws correlate volume with temperature and pressure, which are foundational to our emotions and bodily functions, but we don't confuse them with space.

I could go on, such as that space isn't so much three dimensions, as that's a mapping device, but infinity and equilibrium. Zero to infinity.

Another point I keep trying to make is that if space actually expanded, the speed of light would have to increase proportionally, in order to remain constant. Instead they are assuming two metrics of space, based on the same light. One on the speed and one on the spectrum. If the speed were being used as the numerator, it would be a tired light theory, but as an expanding space theory, cosmology is still using the speed of light as the implicit denominator.

It's not like it's even complicated math, it's just bad math.

The egos have taken over and the field needs rescuing.