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View submission: Which side shoulders the burden of proof?
Sure. There are still a lot of missing pieces in physics and astronomy, and dark energy is proposed to be the cause of some phenomena that don’t fit our models.
But something like the Big Bang theory is very well understood. Keep in mind that the theory isn’t telling us where it came from or what caused it, just that the universe started as an incredibly dense singularity and expanded. That much we know pretty confidently
Comment by diogenesthehopeful at 04/09/2024 at 15:56 UTC
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That much we know pretty confidently
Curt seems to be running a series of foundational physics podcasts. I think this may be a product that might interest you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5cFLN65fI[1][2]
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5cFLN65fI
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5cFLN65fI
It is a long youtube and you aren't interested is watching the whole thing but interested enough to want to get a witness for the point that I'm trying to make maybe only watch from 1:17:17 to 1:46:06 ( Unfortunately there are several minutes in this span where these two guys diverge off topic but I think you have to get to the hour 46 min mark before Neil really gets to his point).
If you don't watch any of it, then my point is that we've been taught that they are more confident than justified. There is a proper way to do inferences and an improper way and the BBT is filled with irrational conclusions despite what we've been told.