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Quotation about the cosmological principle by Bjørn Ekeberg and Louis MarmetCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"As the physicist Sabine Hossenfelder recently pointed out, a key assumption like ‘the cosmological principle’ - that the universe is on average the same in all directions - does not hold up well against observations." Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
Quote about the uniqueness of cosmology by Bjørn Ekeberg and Louis MarmetCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Cosmology is different from other sciences in a fundamental way. The sheer scope of the subject matter covers the largest extent imaginable - literally - and it does so based only on observations from our own local place within it." Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
Quote on cosmology critique by Bjørn Ekeberg and Louis Marmet questioning the standard model and paradigm stuck natureCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"What if any of these hidden inferences happen to be fundamentally wrong? [...] Has the current standard model [Cosmology] become orthodoxy because it is very well-founded and proven - as the consensus view would have it? Or is it rather orthodoxy because it’s become ‘paradigm stuck’ - that is, path dependent and unable to generate a viable alternative?" Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
Quote about logical inference leaps as premises in cosmology by Bjørn Ekeberg and Louis MarmetCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Before any physics or mathematics is involved, the framework is based on a series of logical inference leaps - we count 13 - that works as an invisible premise for the theory. Of these, some are not testable or are barely plausible. But they are necessary as simplifying conditions that enable scientists to articulate a scientifically consistent theory of the universe." Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
Quote on the critique of the Standard Model of Cosmology by Bjørn Ekeberg and Louis MarmetCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Today, there is increasing critical attention on some problematic parts of the Standard Model of Cosmology. Dark matter, dark energy and inflation theory are parts of the standard theoretical framework that remain empirically unverified - and where new observations prompt ever more questions. However, little questioning is heard of the many unverifiable core assumptions that make up our model of the universe." Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
Quote about cosmological models and observational discrepancies by Bjørn Ekeberg and Louis MarmetCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"When faced with discrepancies between theory and observation, cosmologists habitually react by adjusting or adding parameters to fit observations, propose additional hypotheses, or even propose “new physics” and ad hoc solutions that preserve the core assumptions of the existing model." Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
Quote about the paradox in cosmology by Bjørn Ekeberg and Louis MarmetCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There is a great paradox haunting cosmology. The science relies on a theoretical framework that struggles to fit and make sense of the observations we have but is so entrenched that very few cosmologists want to seriously reconsider it." Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
Critique of cosmological orthodoxy quote image by Bjørn Ekeberg and Louis MarmetCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The current orthodoxy of cosmology rests on unexamined assumptions that have massive implications for our view of the universe. From the size of the universe to its expansion, does the whole programme fail if one of these assumptions turns out to be wrong?" Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
Quote by Yuval Noah Harari about the relationship between science, power, and truthCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I mean science, as an institution, is interested in gaining the power — to gain control over the world — to be able to gain control over diseases, over the human body, over the environment, over rivers and animals and forests. You have to submit a grant to somebody to fund, it all comes down to money, in many cases. It’s also an institution- If you’re a freelance scientist, you just explore the truth. Okay. But in an institution, a university, you need money to finance so you submit a research grant, and you have to convince the authority not of the truth. You have to convince the authority that what you want to do will somehow make us more powerful. Will somehow enable us to produce a new weapon. Will somehow enable us to produce more food. Will somehow enable us to gain control over previously uncontrollable, or deadly disease. And this is really what gets the money. Of course, it means to also be truth to some extent. Does it work and who wants it?" Yuval Noah Harari
Quote by Alexander Unzicker about the crisis in modern physics and natural constantsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Physics has lost its grip on the ground. For every anomaly, scientists pull a new parameter out of a hat instead of trying to understand the underlying principles. They have accumulated more than 30 "natural constants": all values that no one can explain." Alexander Unzicker
Quote by Werner Heisenberg about the magical attraction of mathematics in physicsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"I found in the formulae. which were the results of my collaboration with Kramers, a mathematics which in a certain sense worked automatically, independently of all physical models. This mathematical scheme had for me a magical attraction, and I was fascinated by the thought that perhaps here could be seen the first threads of an enormous net of deep-set relations." Werner Heisenberg
Inspirational freedom quote by Franz Grillparzer about the spirit making a person free or a slaveCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"We hear statements such as “This is a free country” or “This is a dictatorship where there is no freedom.” However, these are vague assertions in which the meaning of freedom is not real. One person may feel very free in a totalitarian regime, while another living in a democracy may feel the chains of slavery on their shoulders, weighing down every step they take. The chains of slavery only bind our hands: it is the spirit that makes a person free or a slave." Franz Grillparzer
Quote by Hans-Jürgen Irmer comparing Germany's CO2 savings ambition to China's consumptionCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"To illustrate the extent of Germany's CO2 hysteria, it is important to note that over the next 24 years until 2045, the amount that Germany wants to save at great expense is exactly the amount that China consumes in six months." Hans-Jürgen Irmer
Quote by George Washington about freedom, arms, and self-defenseCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"A free people must not only be armed and disciplined. They should also be sufficiently equipped with weapons and ammunition to defend their independence at any time against anyone who attempts to abuse them. This includes, in particular, their own government." George Washington
Quote by Ludwig von Mises about credit expansion and economic crisesCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"There is no way to prevent the final collapse of a boom generated by credit expansion. The only alternative is either an earlier crisis resulting from the voluntary termination of credit expansion, or a later, final, and total catastrophe for the currency system involved." Ludwig von Mises
Quote by Bernhard Zimniok about unvaccinated as scapegoats and totalitarian demandsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The unvaccinated are serving as scapegoats for the failure of vaccination, which was proclaimed as a panacea for Covid. Those who have been vaccinated cannot admit that they have been deceived—and are venting their frustration in the form of totalitarian demands on the unvaccinated." Bernhard Zimniok
Quote by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about pharmaceutical industry influence over FDA, WHO, and CDC budgetsCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"The FDA receives 45% of its annual budget from the pharmaceutical industry. The World Health Organization (WHO) gets roughly 50% of its budget from private sources, including Big Pharma and its allied foundations. And the CDC, frankly, is a vaccine company; it owns 56 vaccine patents and buys and (very profitably) distributes $4.6 billion in vaccines annually through the Vaccines for Children program, which represents over 40% of its total budget." Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.