Posted by wglb 12 hours ago
I like to imagine thermophlogistonics and general luminiferous aether theory to be mainstream textbook physics today, had they enjoyed a similarly rigorous backing among the right selection of prestigious names and institutions that might have been the case.
We find it elsewhere too. The interconnectedness given by the internet in our current information age have as much enabled the rapid and ever present suppression of ideas as the free dissemination and open discussion of them.
Perhaps it all started as legitimate criticism against a weak or even stupid take but whatever that grew into today is more of a Ministry of Digital Truth and Thought Hygiene standing ready to kick in my door at 3am and beat me with nightsticks.
And, apparently, poor lonely black holes can evaporate over time?
Using the official age of the universe we need to then form the quasar in a dense matter region and then speedrun a galaxy merger that ejects the relevant quasar out into sparse space, all of that in a few hundred million years only.
Using contemporary cosmology practices I suggest we add a Dark Age to everything observed. Yes the age of the quasar is 13 billion something years in the axis of regular time, but due to observations disagreeing with this timeline we can just keep adding years to any given observation in the Dark Age, complex time axis, until the problem is solved