It does seem the sociology takes over, beyond a certain size of the crowd.

Many years ago, reading Hawking's, A Brief History of Time, when it first came out, he made a very interesting observation; Omega=1.

What it translated as is that the expansion of the universe is inversely proportional to the total gravitational effect.

Now how this was interpreted, was that the rate of expansion is increasing at a constant rate, neither speeding up, or slowing down.

Yet to my very non-professional ear, it sounded like they cancel out. Basically that space "curves" into galaxies proportional to the rate it curves out, between them.

Being still under the thrall of math as the voice of god, I presumed this meant the dimensionality falling into galaxies was somehow bubbling up between them.

Some years later, I posited this idea on the NYTimes Mysteries of the Universe section of the forums they hosted, back in the 90's.

To which someone else, name long forgotten, said, no basically it's just how they measure the effect of gravity, relative to how they measure light. No mystery dimensions necessary.

He also commented that he studied cosmology at the University of Chicago and planned to write it up as his masters thesis. To which his advisor suggested that if he seriously wanted to pursue it, he might want to consider another field.

I would also add that what I see where science is most monumentally wrong, as I argue frequently here on Medium, is with the issue of time.

That this flow from past to future is simply an artifact of our minds functioning as a sequence of perceptions, to navigate our mobile bodies.

Which becomes the basis of culture and civilization, as narrative and history and thus academia.

While the evident reality is that activity and the resulting change turns 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.

So it's bit like trying to explain the cosmos swirling east to west, before noting the earth turns west to east.

It's much more thermodynamics, than temporal flow. Like galaxies, the energy radiates out, as structure coalesces in. We are just feedback loops in the middle.