(December 9, 2022 at 10:51 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(December 9, 2022 at 10:43 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: Modern cosmology is just another narrative about how the world began, but it relies on the fact that a finite speed of light allows us to peer back in time, so it is a bit more solid than speculation. Call it part of a constant improvement cycle. Mythology is ISO 9000 compliant.
LinuxGal, you disappoint me!
The FLRW model made a testable, falsifiable prediction, namely, the existence of the CMB. It is much more than a "just so" story about how the Universe began.
Yes, on another thread we've disagreed about how solid a model explaining evidence can be. I'm not saying there's anything to Popperism (heck, the daily horoscope is falsifiable, that doesn't make it scientific) but we've got data, and we've got models that explain the data, and our models approach the way things are as a limit. They never get all the way there.
