Originally Posted by Damien

Not sure exactly to what you're referring with regards to the shape of the solar system.

The Scientists seem pretty sure and they've been working on this for several years not content with the theory until they found these waves. The level of effort they've gone to prove this theory instead of just accepting all the other evidence should inspire confidence. You can stick to your skepticism but it appears to be based on nothing but a desire to question everything they do without evidence to merit your scepticism. They have gone to extraordinary endeavours to back up their claims whereas yours appear to be based on the fact that sometimes scientists are wrong. I would suggest that we go with the state of science which will evolve when they find out more information.

The alternative is to reject all scientific advances because there could always be another explanation for what we think we already know. Matter and concepts which we currently cannot detect or grasp. Things which exist outside our current understanding of the world. That train of thought heads into madness and the questioning of everything we currently know. Do we even exist? and so on.

So the best we can do to work within the parameters we have and the world as we can measure it. It's done well enough to help us invent air flight, space travel, nuclear technology and computing. So until such time as it's proven otherwise, it would seem the inflation theory is correct. It was hypothesised almost 100 years ago. Evidence has increasingly mounted in it's favour. Now they've found the final part of the jigsaw.