Remember epicycles really were brilliant math, as a description of our view of the cosmos and laid much of the foundations of geometry, but the crystalline spheres were lousy physics, as explanation.

It's that map versus territory issue, 'shut up and calculate' orthodoxy situation.

Consider the point about time and it's dimensionalization. Are we really going to be time traveling through wormholes in the fabric of spacetime, with the right application of mathematical faerie dust?

Even scientists recognize how much sociology informs their models. "Progress happens one funeral at a time."

Thank you for reading.

I do think the Webb will shake orthodoxy, so hopefully all goes well.