Academic dating

Despite evidence to the contrary, it’s still claimed that light travels in straight lines. In nature are there actually any truly straight lines? I don’t think so. Everything curves. We have spirals, especially Fibonacci spirals; we have orbits, epicycles including moon orbits; there is turbulence and a variety of forms of flow. We have maps and mathematics and want them to represent “reality” better than they do.
Regardless of one’s opinion of Big Bang Theory, it is naïve to expect all to be moving straight away from a center, instead of swirling in increasing loops. When astronomers and astrophysicists calculate distance to stars that sent out light we are aware of them by, do they take this into account? I think not. It’s simply too complex, and the values that must be used for acceptability anachronistic as academia self-corrects but at painfully slow rates, in order to maintain what esteem academicians pretend to. Reputations are at stake! Priorities, priorities!
We’ve known for a century that light bends traveling around celestial objects, and for almost as long that mathematics is inconsistent, incomplete, and basically hypothetical. There is no demonstrable true unity, nullity, indivisibility or incontrovertible truth. We have approximations, some awareness of patterns, theories and postulates, but no tangible “space-time” or real “string theory” – we are limited by context, limited in perception, constrained by circumstance and tested by our strange desires.
But nevermind, let’s continue to charge a fortune for “education”! Schooling is the best dating service we know.