Josh,
I don’t know much about ZPE. Did not study the stuff to have an opinion one way or another. I know of some experiments that may be related and they demonstrate something that does not fit. Whether it is ZPE, not so sure.
As for the cosmology… the current model is not that old. Every day, you’d find in science news a phrase “scientists were puzzled” or an equivalent of it thereof. If you had a model that was 99% accurate reflection of real stuff out there, you should get a confirmation of the model day by day. But alas, it seems to be just the opposite, new epicycles have to be applied, renormalizations inserted into equations to account for the newly discovered phenomena.
No one showed me yet one picture of a star forming from an accretion disk or via a gravitational collapse of a gas cloud. The asteroid belt seems to be as old as our solar system, yet you don’t have a planet there instead that should have enough time to coalesce, instead, you can see from time to time asteroids smashing together and dispersing the debris further. The stupid things won’t coalesce, damn it!
Yet I could go through Hubble pictures and find you probably a thousand of instances of stars forming through a z-pinch. You see them lighting up as a string of pearls along the plasma filaments that are called Birkeland currents.
I were convinced, maybe 10 years ago, like you, that what I was taught at school is true, or at least 99% corresponding model of what is out there. The science is “settled”. Boy, what that reminds me of?
But I’ve noticed the frequent discrepancies, the models inability to account for newly discovered phenomena… way too many puzzlements. Some doubts creeped in earlier, after the Saturn rings were photographed and that incomprehensible twisted one was found… But I thought… maybe that’s the 1% we still don’t know it yet.
And then I saw images of the sun spots, close ups. That moment it downed on me we had it all wrong.
The Electric/Plasma Universe is a model. It seems to have better predictive abilities than the current model. Where there is a puzzlement in mainstream cosmology, I see a confirmation for the electric model that predicted the discovery.
I am not much of an theorist. More of an engineering type. Habeas corpus, show me the body. The math can be often beautiful, but that does not mean it is reflected in reality. The equations that are used as a supportive construct for the existence of black holes is essentially a divide by zero concept. In fact, the concept of the black hole is a more stargatish concept than not.
The current cosmology, with its epicycles and fudges in the form of dark matter and black holes is quite like the AGW in its modus operandi. Theoretical and often political considerations beat the stuff you can touch, beat the data.
Show me the data.
