Cosmology and Its Uniqueness – Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
“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
Critique of the Standard Model of Cosmology by Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
“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
Logical Premises in Cosmology by Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
“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
Critique of the Standard Model of Cosmology by Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
“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
Cosmological Models and Discrepancies – Quote by Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
“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
Great Paradox in Cosmology – Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
“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 by Bjørn Ekeberg & Louis Marmet
“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 Friedrich Nietzsche on Fighting and Abyss
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Neil Postman on Television and Education
“Television is a non graded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away wtih the idea of sequenece and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.”
Neil Postman
Education Research: A Quote by Neil Postman
“Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.”
Neil Postman