(Wish this forum had a spellcheck) To be honest, we believe the only reason the observationalist extend theories is to get their name in print, the old publish or perish concept. The observationalists and cosmologists have chosen their means of producing income, the more they write the more they make. To earn their income their offerings have to be spectacular, or at least greater than the other guy's. Thus, ignoring the laws they know exist, they develope theories that they know themselves can't be proven. The known laws are very boring, having to apply them is even more boring, and not worth one penny in income. Science would be very poor without theories! Proof? Look at the botched attempts at proving human evolution, the false skulls, the phoney linage and embrio charts, all done to obtain or retain a grant to a "great" scientist or institution. The fact is, they publish, or they perish!