Gab@StFerdinandIII - https://unstabbinated.substack.com/
Plenty of cults exist - every cult has its 'religious dogma', its idols, its 'prophets', its 'science', its 'proof' and its intolerant liturgy of demands. Cults everywhere: Corona, 'The Science' or Scientism, Islam, the State, the cult of Gender Fascism, Marxism, Darwin and Evolution, Globaloneywarming, Changing Climate, Abortion...
Tempus Fugit Memento Mori - Time Flies Remember Death
“How significant is this quadrupole-octopole alignment? As a simple definition of preferred axis, [it] denotes the spherical harmonic coefficients of the map in a rotated coordinate system….if the CMB is an isotropic Gaussian random field, then a chance alignment this good requires a 1-in-62 fluke.” (Max Tegmark, Angélica de Oliveira-Costa and Andrew Hamilton, “A high resolution foreground cleaned CMB map from WMAP,” Physical Rev. D, July 26, 2003, p. 14)
To translate the above, "Scientists have found that two specific patterns (four poles and eight poles within the cosmic background radiation), in the early universe's picture are lined up in a very unusual way. If our current understanding of the universe is correct, this alignment should be completely random. But the odds of it happening by chance are very low, maybe about 1 in 62 (or much lower in the author’s opinion). This suggests that there might be something about the universe we don't understand."
The above observation and interpretation indicate a far smaller universe than we are told. That is what they mean by ‘something about the universe that we don’t understand’. Distant events, WMAP, JWST, COBE and other telescopic and probe information, do not support the infinite universe model. Einstein was right when he originally believed, based on some basic Newtonian logic, that the universe was likely static and not infinite or expanding. One for Einstein! More here