Posted on 08/17/2022 1:12:26 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
To everyone who sees them, the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images of the cosmos are beautifully awe-inspiring. But to most professional astronomers and cosmologists, they are also extremely surprising—not at all what was predicted by theory. In the flood of technical astronomical papers published online since July 12, the authors report again and again that the images show surprisingly many galaxies, galaxies that are surprisingly smooth, surprisingly small and surprisingly old. Lots of surprises, and not necessarily pleasant ones. One paper’s title begins with the candid exclamation: “Panic!”
Why do the JWST’s images inspire panic among cosmologists? And what theory’s predictions are they contradicting? The papers don’t actually say. The truth that these papers don’t report is that the hypothesis that the JWST’s images are blatantly and repeatedly contradicting is the Big Bang Hypothesis that the universe began 14 billion years ago in an incredibly hot, dense state and has been expanding ever since. Since that hypothesis has been defended for decades as unquestionable truth by the vast majority of cosmological theorists, the new data is causing these theorists to panic. “Right now I find myself lying awake at three in the morning,” says Alison Kirkpatrick, an astronomer at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, “and wondering if everything I’ve done is wrong.”
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Sure it did. It was called Creation, and God did it.
“The Universe is infinite.”
Actually we have a deeper problem than that.
Homo Sapiens is limited by their senses and the “senses” of their machinery/instruments.
The more we learn the more we realize we do not know.
These matters must be approached with humility—or humiliation will be the result.
The Big Bang: All matter in the universe, compressed into a single location the size of a single molecule, for an eternity, an then in an instant, nothing happened and it exploded into everything.
Never heard of that one. Is that a Japanese movie with English subtitles?
The Firesign Theatre was a comedy group that recorded a bunch of record albums in the 60s and 70s. There’s a Wikipedia article about them.
I think she was a Nanny.😆
Actually, even less relevant than sports. Not many people betting on the outcome of astrophysics or astronomy debates.
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