A strong reply by John, and an equally strong response by you, Tom.

This time the truth lies plainly in the middle.

Scientists are living up to the gold standard of science, but they do so in the wrong place where we find a silver standard area of science.

The materialization process is not repeatable, and therefore silver only, and yet the scientific golden egg is placed on that seat and scientists will not look at any silver eggs that rightfully belong in that spot.

https://fred-rick.medium.com/the-big-whisper-theory-for-dummies-38333ffabe0c

Of course the golden egg of science is not really golden here. Scientists take three right turns to end up going where a simple left turn would have sufficed. And in the mean time they declare their egg golden.

Scientists are kings that sit on the throne of a land where there are no kings.

It is possible to have a materialization process that did not start out super-hot (by having original energy becoming matter starting out far closer to the CMBR location, shortening the adiabatic process of cooling by much), and the initial cosmic inflation is then also absolete. A car driving 40 mph and downtown a little more than an hour away will have gone more than 40 mph during that trip. But if the car started from suburbia five miles out, then the car went 40 mph all the time.