Potemkin stupidity and cosmogony

 

PSI Blog 20220221 Potemkin stupidity and cosmogony

 

Like other dissidents, I have been amazed by the pure stupidity of today’s theoretical physics and cosmology. To believe the entire universe, containing over two trillion galaxies, exploded out of a “singularity” the size of the period at the end of this sentence appears to me the height of idiotic mathematical abstraction. To believe there could be an end to the universe appears to me the height of solipsism. The unadmitted assumption underlying today’s cosmology is that the universe had a beginning. That is why I call it like it is: cosmogony, which is the study of the origin of the universe. But one can just as well assume the universe had no origin. By doing so, everything falls into place.[1]

 

But here we are, in 2022, more than 500 years after Copernicus began to put the kibosh on humanity’s self-centeredness. At that time, we still had an excuse. We barely knew what the stars were or that we were part of a galaxy having 400 billion stars. We eventually misnamed that fuzzy object in Andromeda another “island universe,” a habit still with us as the silly “multiverse” concoction. Why haven’t we finally given up the notion the universe is finite, still believing a man who erroneously imagined light was a particle filled with perfectly empty space traveling perpetually through perfectly empty space?

 

As the great man himself said: “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”

 

Despite the hundreds of books and unrecognized papers written in opposition to relativity and its cosmogonical offspring, we still believe the same old stuff. How stupid can we be? And why? If you really want to know, you must start by reading my "Religious Roots of Relativity."[2] If that is too strong for you, try reading this short article:

 

Sheppard, Jerry, and Young, Jesse, 2021, Potemkin stupidity: Academia Letters, no. 471, p. 1-7. [https://doi.org/10.20935/AL471].

 

Here is the abstract:

 

“Potemkin Stupidity

 

What if the village idiots’ apparent stupidity is simply a façade for some ugly truth? Perhaps seemingly stupid acts are guided by some underlying agenda that one prefers to ignore. A quick review here should answer some questions. What is stupidity? Who is Potemkin? How does one define Potemkin stupidity? Where can one see some examples of Potemkin stupidity? Finally, why should this concern us?”

 

 

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[1] Borchardt, Glenn, 2017, Infinite Universe Theory: Berkeley, California, Progressive Science Institute, 327 p. [http://go.glennborchardt.com/IUTebook].

[2] Borchardt, Glenn, 2020, Religious Roots of Relativity: Berkeley, California, Progressive Science Institute, 160 p. [ https://go.glennborchardt.com/RRR-ebk ]