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Problems in Modern Cosmology

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Ideas & Questions

Published: 05 January 2026

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My YouTube videos lately have been of Sir Roger Penrose and Lectures by Richard Feynman.

The Feynman Lectures, excellent explanations that only serve to befuddle me more, and I can listen only to so many before I begin to get unsettled. They're synthesized from his notes, audio clips of him speaking, audio, it's the "Uncanny" feeling - that AI can resurrect you from the dead and have you do whatever it wants - listening to these for some reason builds up a pit of anxiety in my stomach.

So back to Penrose. I'm liking him; 94, still lucid and he disagrees with the standard Cosmological Model.

I; as well; disagree, the difference is that he does from a position of a lifetime commitment to studying physics and observing the universe and doing the math (ie: education) - mine simply a deep seated intuition that something is wrong. Not with the Universe - you have to love Feynman's quote "The Universe doesn't owe us an explanation" - but something deep and fundamental with our understanding of it.

A few examples: The expanding, or inflationary universe - (Big Bang Theory) - which are somewhat validated by the red shifting of stars and galaxies but then undermined by the supersized galactic rings and super structures that of necessity predate the "Dawn of the Universe". Even Eddington, whose idea it was - later came to reject it.

Why is the speed of light what it is? What of the Hubble tension? 

And those pesky time-travelling Positrons, Dirac's equations, so many other questions - 

Then there's the problem of an infinite, unbounded universe, which if left unchecked would see another me at another time perfectly incarnated, doing exactly what I'm doing right now - that all things of necessity would occur again, and this is also intuitively wrong. What I can imagine is that the laws of the universe will change as itself "evolves" to avoid this repetition

But - and the more I understand (which is really less) the more I can get on board with a whole host of spiritual teachings that explain it on a human scale - which, really, is going to have to be good enough.

Three Magic Words - U.S. Anderson

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Books

Published: 05 January 2026

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This took me forever to read, mainly because I've read countless others just like it and have long since arrived at the same conclusions and taken the message to heart. The reading, then, a formality; I know the subject well enough to lecture on it myself.

Another one for the Theosophical Library.

 

Bandwidth

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Blog

Published: 03 January 2026

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And so I ran out of bandwidth the other day on my phone following a drunken downloading of the entire internet.

SO, for the next few days my internet use is restricted to the library. 

At home it's too slow. Way too slow. 

Facebook - can't even load the shortest inane video. Reddit stalls, even news sites are unreachable - it just shows how bloated with code the internet is; this website is no exception, these things should load on my phone no problem, they're simply text and images, that they don't shows how grotesquely badly the internet it being implemented. Code bloat. What should be done with a few kb worth of files & text now takes mb, even gb; and to no avail. Bandwidth for sale, use up the bandwidth as quickly as possible so we can sell you more...

That said, this is odd to me. I can play YouTube videos no problem. The video quality, not so good, but the audio is fine. Why is YouTube the only optimized website? In any event, listening lately to Sir Roger Penrose - interesting, but he's in decline, and there are these interesting AI narrated videos in the voice and style of the late Richard Feynman "Explaining" gravity, motion, etc, and these I'm finding good background listening, I'm putting together my own theory of Cosmology (much as Karl Pilkington might put together a theory of Anthropology) - still, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one confused by the state of the Cosmos.