Heh.. always fun to spar on the 'Primacy of math', Paine. Like i allus
sed, there's no argument with the *utility* of math which gives us our
creature comforts and technologies. But the Primacy of math, that is,
making The Math supplant and *substitute for* the literal mechanism it
purports to describe, is where the train derails. And this Pof M
syndrome is exclusive to cosmology, astrophysics, and theoretical
physics. It gave us the "gift that keeps on giving", the VSP with its
plethora of 'sidebars' like 'eleven dimensions' (or whatever number is
currently in vogue), a 'one-shot' BB, 'ever-accelerating expansion
unto entropic heat death', "dark matter/dark energy", and on and on,
"adding epicycles" whenever the paradigm bogs down and needs another
kludge.
Math, in its secondary, descriptive 'bookeeping'
role, is fine. But when math is given Primacy and then *applied to a
false premise*, a "trainwreck" results.. like the epicycles of
geocentrism and the 'sidebars' of the VSP.