Re: The reality of sets, on a scale of 1 to 10 (theory of theories)

Jim Burns wrote :

On 3/26/2025 6:11 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

Too out there?

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Not at all.
You are in alignment with
the Steady State hypothesis,
which is approximately:
Everything is the way it is because
it's always been that way.
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Before the Big Bang was the frontrunner
in the best.theory.sweepstakes,
there was the Steady State.
It wasn't even so long ago that
it was frontrunner.
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Einstein inserted the term Λgₘₙ into
his General Relativity field equations
  Rₘₙ - ½Rgₘₙ + Λgₘₙ = 8πG/c⁴⋅Tₘₙ
in order for them to have Steady State solutions.
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Later,
when evidence was found of a hot early universe,
Einstein is said to have called Λgₘₙ
his greatest blunder.
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So,
although today the evidence points away from
the Steady State universe,
it didn't always point away.
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If I were typing this even a week ago,
I would be reciting some very definite numbers
alleged to describe our universe.
However, I've recently learned that
we've learned that
the universe is expanding unevenly,
so
there's a whole lot of re.thinking going on.
I'm not sure what to tell you.

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Or, as Ross Finlayson would probably say,
Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondi, and Thomas Gold.