John,
I've got to take care of some other time-consuming business and don't think we're close enough on the BBT issue to really get anywhere. I'm glad that we agree on the primordial consciousness as opposed to emergent, but my theory ties everything together into a unified whole. If I have to cut out large pieces of it, it will kill the theory, and I've seen no reason to do so (yet). In fact, my theory makes predictions about what will be found at LHC and has several cosmological implications, so until the predictions are confirmed or proven wrong, I'm sticking with what I believe is the best theory of reality.
As for Linde's "chaotic inflation" I don't buy it, or, as I understand it, any of the associated multiverse. They do not have any explanation of inflation (other than undiscovered 'inflatons' based on QED concepts) and the remarks I made above reflect my doubts about even QED. Just yesterday the APS newsletter quoted Peter Mohr at NIST about the 4 percent discrepancy between the (QED) predicted and measured radius of the proton...
"It would be quite revolutionary. It would mean that we know a lot less than we thought we knew... If it is a fundamental problem, we don't know what the consequences are yet."
John, for the last five years I've been watching new mysteries being reported in particle physics and cosmology that fit right into my model but do not fit any current theories. As a practical matter, the gigantic academic-industrial-governmental-science establishment is not going to roll over and say "we don't know what the hell is going on", but I am absolutely convinced that this is the case. There is more BS and theories postulated on make believe entities (see my Aug. 29, 2010 @ 20:44 GMT comment above) and the whole thing is a house of cards. So I'm not ready to throw overboard my theory that explains almost everything I'm aware of just because there are 'redshift issues' that I haven't had time to work through yet. If the LHC finds a Higgs, or other SUSY particles then I'll have to take a real good look at why my theory predicts none. But until then I'll just keep plowing through issues one at a time, and the redshift is now on the list of issues, but not at the top.
One problem is that pictures aren't enough, equations have to produce numbers that match reality. For example, QED cannot explain the 4 percent discrepancy. My model does qualitatively explain a 'smaller' proton radius as seen by the muon, but I can't calculate 4 pct exactly. On the other hand, they have not the slightest idea why it's smaller. The proton radius, the negative core of the neutron, massive (as opposed to massless) neutrinos-- these are big deals, but, since the current theories can't explain it, they ignore it. Given finite time and energy, I have to choose real measured problems that my model supports and the other guys can't explain, over conceptual problems that may or may not be real.
BTW, I too live on a ranch. I think it's a better way to grasp reality. I haven't found your email address, but if you look on my essay, you'll find mine.
Edwin Eugene Klingman