Mike McCulloch on Quantized Inertia and Old Galaxies

My comment:

I worry about the epistemological stability of your theory. These calculations regarding the age of the Universe based on red-shift, and the mass at that stage of cosmological evolution are all based on various theories (I am not a cosmologist or an astrophysicist so I don't know what they actually are) which produce certain data that you are using to support a different theory. I think you need to also take into account the consistency by showing (or at least indicating why it is not necessary to show) that the laws you are proposing do not produce different estimates for the age and apparent mass of the Universe at the time to which the observations on which you base these new theories are assumed. It is quite possible that you will find different values, and a different set of data that are consistent, then you will have the possibility of another experimental test of your theory. I have been saying for years that this ought to be a priority for all of physics/astrophysics/cosmology. These are extremely complex models and there really needs to be some way to check their internal consistency. To me this seems even more important than doing new research, because the integrity of the whole enterprise depends upon it. But it seems that people like Neil Turok find it easier to get funding for bigger telescopes. So people are in general much more [interested] in seeing new stuff than they are in knowing what it is they are actually looking at.

Updates:


He really is talking about a complete do-over of cosmology, starting with quantum mechanics. I wonder what Lee Smolin thinks of this?

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