I am interested in alternative explanations even including nonrelativistic ones... as the current ones we have are largely unsatisfactory so I guess this makes

I am interested in alternative explanations even including nonrelativistic ones... as the current ones we have are largely unsatisfactory so I guess this makes me a 'crackpot'. This is how science is done not blindly answering 'easy questions' (which is what I do in my real life academic job, well not easy..). Personally I just disregard the whole article it is written by someone who is neither a physicist nor engineer, in fact someone without any background in the physical sciences at all. What intellectual right this social scientist has to pontificate on matters he knows nothing about is unknown to me. He seems to disregard the opinion of those who are trained engineers with a PhD as damaged goods or delusional. What right has he to say this with absoloutely no knowledge in the field? Maybe after 8 years of daily academic grind he can come back and write something with a bit more humility. For instance "without actually studying maths and physics - which would show the crackpot why he’s misguided." - How does he know this?? Although my academic background is in EE I have reviewed the physics curriculum at my alma mater and there is little there that I do not already know to an advanced level. Most learnt during my PhD in physics. 'Regular interaction' is important and the textbooks are outdated/immaterial, it's not possible to understand papers unless you are talking to the people involved. This is a man who simply doesn't understand what working in the physical sciences involves. He is totally ignorant of the field. Does he think major advances are happening on a 6 monthly basis?