Isn’t it possible that some of the inconsistencies/things that don’t add up and that form the so-called “crisis of cosmology,” are not to be attributed to new forces/new particles/profound laws of physics and unified models that elude us, but simply to the fact that on a large scale (at least, one the large scales that we can observe) the universe is less uniform and homogeneous than assumed?
Well no it’s an assumption/principle/axiom/postulate above all. It has been confirmed and tested that the universe has a certain degree of uniformity and homogeneity on large scales, sure… but is THAT uniforme and homogeneous that not even the slightest “environmental variation” in the way physical laws/constants appear/come into view (and thus in the way comsic objects/events/phenomena behave) is permitted/allowed?