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I understand your skepticism. But the awkward fact remains that three-stage cosmological natural selection made accurate predictions about the early universe, in advance of the Jam…

Glad you like the theory! As for the age of the blazar... Pretty confident. "Bañados and his team..." searched systematically "...for objects that were redshifted so far that they …

Thanks! Glad you were enjoying it. Also, if you keep going, epicycles do in fact get a shout out!

Mmmm, I thought I had carefully avoided doing exactly that. I think I say at various points that there were good reasons at the time for the choices they made, and I try to show, a…

I do understand why you are critical of my decision to attack ΛCDM and the work that led to it. I can see your point of view, and indeed I wrestled with that decision. I do realise…

I watched the search for the Higgs Boson and the search for Cold Dark Matter carry on in parallel for decades. The former was clearly actual science: they had a theoretical particl…

I like you, wyager. Marry me. Yeah, I think cosmology has very slowly walked into a swamp with ΛCDM. And it's having enormous trouble backing out of the swamp, even though the Jame…

Yes. (See longer version of this "yes" above!)

Currently, Cold Dark Matter, as used in simulations etc, usually has six free parameters. Most simulations of structure formation at the level of the universe as a whole ONLY model…

Hi, I’m Julian Gough. I write novels (most recently science fiction), children’s books, and hard-to-classify stuff like the End Poem for Minecraft. I’m currently writing a book abo…

It’s an absolute pleasure! I love seeing what people do with my words.

Thanks for putting up the context. Thoughtful of you.

Oh, I wondered why some people were visiting theeggandtherock.com from Hacker News. (I popped over to check.) I see, it’s downstream of this… Yes, a very nice Brazilian guy set up …

Hi all. I'm Julian, the guy who wrote the ending to Minecraft, and that Substack piece. I've read a fair few of your comments. (Not all; blimey, 600? You've crowdsourced a book!) V…