Thank you for addressing a rather difficult area, Douglas, where science has its foundation, where beliefs have their foundation, and of most interest of course where that delineation between both can sometimes be gray, particularly due to humans being involved.

While trying to present a different scientific approach, I personally encountered the difficulty people have to change their paradigm, keep an open mind. Naturally, I get it that physicists deal with very complex information and that they do not readily appreciate something coming from left field. But stubborn, people can be.

I love of course the Planck quote. Glancing at the history of science we can indeed see a see-saw of older beliefs and ideas replaced by newer ideas (and perhaps beliefs) only with time, not necessarily because the newer ideas did not exist yet. It is much as how you describe it.

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One remarks about your article. I would not use the word belief directly for science. It is confusing where you do (or pretend to do). Rather, I would call it out as the transgression of scientists moving into the religious field. You see, one is allowed to theorize in science and there is nothing wrong with that. Yet once we theorize on top of theories on top of theories, that is when physicists can enter the realm of religion.

Other than that: Thank you, thank you, thank you.