Greysky wrote:

...because god did not make a very complicated universe. From simple
precepts, many conclusions can be reached - back then the common knowledge
was baryon number is not conerved. As proton decay was not observed, the
theories became more and more outlandish and cosmology became sillier and
sillier. To get grounded once more, try as a exercise to think of the
implications of the simple modification to the equivalecne principal I gave.
What happens if you stick it in absolute magnitude signs?

The universe is complicated. It is also not beautiful. The idea that
physics has to be based on something simple and beautiful is a conceit.
Truth is not Beauty. Beauty is not Truth and the world, -as it is- is
messy and ugly.

Bob Kolker