It doesn't seem any point I make is going to get through to you.

Try this again, against what is the expanding universe being calibrated against, if not light speed and doesn't that make it the denominator?

I only got into studying science and philosophy to try to make some sense of all the nonsensical sociology, as all the various creeds, cultures, cults spiral into their various vortices, echo chambers, rabbit holes. Then find the same social dynamics at work in academia and science.

You might think the more people working on something, the more angles explored, but quantity does overwhelm quality. The larger the crowd, the lower the common denominator. That's why the religions that serve as the locus of cultures tend to be simple ideas for simple minds.

Yes, it takes a Steve Jobs to see the cracks in the old model and start to develop a new model, but then it takes a Tim Cook to come along and start organizing all the minions and systems to take advantage of it. While there might be a stage where pointing out further cracks is welcome, after a point it starts to solidify and threaten constituencies and factions within these structures, so the best way to get ahead is patching the premises, not questioning them. "Shut up and calculate." "Change happens one funeral at a time."

Whatever.

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/modern-cosmology-science-or-folktale