I'm a very basic person and I try to keep my thinking very basic, because there is so much information and it can spiral off into chaos very easily.

I realize our current icons of the intellect are the theoretical physicists, yet when they start talking multiverses, there is no possibility some problems might have been buried in all the complexity?

You still can't give me a simple yes or no, as to whether space is supposed to expand in relation to the speed of light?

Don't worry about being harsh. Where I grew up, horse racing and farming, physics is not getting too hurt, too often. Not something that can only be derived from equations.

I am predicting the James Webb finds the cosmic background radiation to be the light of ever distant sources, shifted off the visible spectrum, not some initial singularity. Though I recently read somewhere, that 80% of it is already determined to be the ambient light of distant sources, so there is always the option of just pushing the theory out beyond the edge of observability.

I tend not to have some platonic view of math, but see it as emergent with the processes and patterns it models. When you distill a body down to its most stable elements, you have the skeleton, not the egg.

Epicycles were brilliant math, as a description of our view of the cosmos, while the crysalline spheres were lousy physics, as explanation.

Having followed the subject since the 70's, I've watched the sociological process, as well as the theoretical development and I do sense a bit of herding, as anyone disputing the BBT is pushed out, while any patch enabling the theory is accepted without question. So the normal response I get is similar to yours. "You don't know anything. Go read something."

Fortunately my livelihood doesn't depend on this and there are many interesting issues bubbling up, much closer to our reality.

Is money a social contract enabling mass society, or is it a commodity to mine from society?

Here is where my thinking tends to be focused;

https://medium.com/predict/peeling-the-paradigm-1ceab7e774b0