I'm with you on that (ie: I agree) but how can they regard it as not "real science" ?
Goodness me, Physics started with Astronomy !
From looking at the questions being asked about Gravity (recent post), I'm reminded of basic High School/1st yr Uni Physics ! (Which is, I might add about the only way I know to answer a question about the nature of two gravitationally bound bodies).
Cosmology might contain a sprinkling of hypothesis and rubbery-ness but it's always been firmly rooted in Physics ! (Can't have one without the other !)
(I suspect your post is going to fire up someone in Townsville ... when he read this one !!
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