Think how much the built in assumption is that there is some ultimate, basic "thing," be it atoms, quanta and now strings. Then triangulated with math.

Epicycles really were brilliant math, as a modeling of our view of the cosmos, but the underlaying assumption, that we are the center of the frame, made it a lousy basis for the physics.

One point I keep trying to make, even did a medium essay on it;

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/the-confessions-of-a-cosmic-heretic-5cd4c044b8ea

Is that when they realized that redshift increases proportional to distance in all directions, it makes us appear to be at the center of the universe, so the theory was changed from an expansion in space, to an expansion of space, because "spacetime," totally ignoring the fact that if intergalactic light is being redshifted, it isn't constant to intergalactic space. More lightyears, not expanding lightyears.

Basically the assumption is that light is some wavy light, that as space "expands," it gets stretched out and is less wavy. Totally ignoring how waves are generated in the first place.

So two metrics of space are being derived from the same light. One based on the speed and the other based on the spectrum. Since speed is being used as the denominator, otherwise it would be a "tired light" theory, the actual mathematical logic underlaying this model is total nonsense. It's like saying our theory works, if 1+1=3, so 1+1 must equal 3, because we really like our theory.

The much deeper problem is the only way single spectrum light redshifts is recession, but multispectrum light "packets" redshift over distance, as the higher frequencies dissipate faster, but that would mean we are sampling a wave front, not observing individual photons traveliing billions of lightyears. Which means the quantization of light is a function of its absorption and measurement, not fundamental to the light and that really goes against the religion.

Sociology rules, when the herd moves.

If you are an antelope running with the herd, you can't just stop and scratch your ear.