The problem for the naysayers is that the science and the physics has always supported what he is doing and what he is saying. It has no method of disproving him -- rather the opposite, in fact.
Such things tend to make ’the monkey in man’ quite uncomfortable, so they use the fact argument of prior thinking projected into everything.
For if Geoff is correct, then a lot of what the linear and ego mind operates on and works hard to exist comfortably within (safe in the tree with a banana) will disappear ....and one is left.... more than a little bit groundless.
No matter what the texts say and what the leading edge of the science and physics says (as some think they’ve got it figured out), it is still turtles all the way down.
In essence, we all live in a forest, in a box..and if the forest is full enough, complex enough, etc (for the given individual)...then we can’t see the walls of the box and then we don’t understand that there is even a box.
The vast majority of humans live like this, this thing where their consciousness is like a s**tstain running down the side of an animal. It is unavoidable unless one isolates themselves from it (the world and interactions
of any kind), like a buhddist or zen monk, and spends the decades it takes to clear ones self up..
The linear mind as attached to someone trained out of textbooks (rote dogmatic impression and regurgitation) and told to use that text as a dogmatic bible and thrust it at all out there they see and encounter..as a filter and hammer...this person might not be (and probably isn’t) wired to understand that their forest IS actually in a box.
As..
it is in a box.
A box on the back of a turtle, and well, we can’t see through the mist (turtle) to see if it ends or of there is another turtle below that, or a million more turtles - or what.
Go to any university and ask any professor of physics if they think what I say is true or not. They may take exception with how I’m presenting it or wording it, but..conceptually, re the idea of reality itself...they will agree.
This basic point in human psychological positioning and understanding is the very raison d’être of engineering vs physics/science, as wholly separate vocations and mindset ---from one another. Eg, Queens university here in Kingston, categorically refuses to conflate engineering with physics, for that very core and important reason. It’s embedded in the names of the courses, the naming of the fields of endeavor, the buildings, the paper work, in everything. It is subtle, but 100% there. Just like it is in all other facilities dedicated to higher education.
You exist as a self created and self maintained load line of data points, hanging in a unfathomable mist, connected to nothing discernible.
That’s all we’ve got.
Engineering is when we utilize the data points on that misty ended loadline...among themselves as a representation and fabrication of a forest and forest products -- within the box. And that job, or endeavor as a fundamental, has pointedly.. no use for theory and is centered around facts, as the load line is one of facts.
But the full nature of the loadine as seen by science, is one of all theory, as.... with no anchor point, it can’t be anything else. The science and physics....recognizes and attempts to deal with the box and the turtle, or tries to deal with the misty obscured ends of the loadline.
You can look at one of a thousand different expressions of it and find exactly the same. Few look, though. as the nature of it is to become ungrounded and then ostracized at a minimum, so the animal carrier of the self...shies from it.