Something that has always bothered me about astronomy is that scientists seems “so” confident that they are right. Spectrograph’s work great on things that aren’t millions/billions of light-years away behind billions of megatons of dust. Redshift and blue shift work great as well but who knows what kind of anomalies, dusts, even light and gravity are out there that distort our instruments.
In conclusion I hate that scientists aren’t more “skeptical” about the nature of reality. We can’t see past the star cluster in the middle of our own milky way, the opposite side could be completely voidless, it could have part of another galaxy sticking out the end. But the textbooks, theories, and general jargon come with a heavy dose of accuracy and confidence. Which is just BS.
“Sol and the planets move around the Earth” - The World.
“Nope” - Galileo.
“Burn him!” - Every other scientist.
Modern world:
“E=mc^2” - The World.
“Nope” - Fringe scientists.
“Silence him and make sure his voice is not heard” - Every other scientist.
Basically, they “know” they are right. But they cannot possibly even be 1% sure they are right. It’s ridiculous.
When you are so sure of your biased thoughts on science, its not science anymore is it? It’s politics.
There is a famous question: why is the sky dark?
One can do a fairly simple analysis using scaling laws for volume vs. distance, combined with the inverse square law and the hypothesis that the distribution of stars within the universe is approximately uniform, to demonstrate that the sky should be light, not dark.
You are not by any means the only person who has questioned the nature of reality. I think that many cosmologists and astrophysicists do this also, and others as well.