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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Yeah I know, but it’s the Firesign bit that sticks most in my mind. I was more a Cheech and Chong guy in those days.
The universe is moving toward total entropy. The final resting state of the dead universe will be at a temperature of 7 degrees Kelvin.
Alison Kirkpatrick lies awake at 3 a.m. because she set up call forwarding with Hillary, so any calls for Hillary at that hour, Alison answers. Hillary is probably passed out drunk at that hour of the morning anyway.
I wonder how much useful information got crowded out of my head by Firesign Theatre, Cheech and Chong, Monty Python, etc., etc.
Nothing that really mattered. Those cultural memories are just as important.
Le Maitre, who thought up the Big Bang Theory, was a Catholic monk. He had no problem conceiving of God kicking off the whole thing. I’m sure he wouldn’t lose sleep today over needing to rethink his theory, because when God is in charge, the intellectual journey is not scary, even if humbling. It’s awe-inspiring.
It did happen, here’s the proof:
Genesis 1:1-3 KJV
[1] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. [2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. [3] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. …
I’ve been saying this for decades, overwhelmingly to eyerolls & scoffs. Such is the nature of inherent confirmation bias.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4083303/posts?page=15#15
I think you’re right. Anything we really need to know, we can just google.
Who was apparently actually an apostate who didn’t beleive in God or His Word.
I.e
Human secularist in catholic drag
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God is eternal. He lives outside of time. Scientists have trouble defining what time is exactly. There was no beginning for God. There will be no end for God. We cannot comprehend that. As we are above an ant, He is above us in understanding. For those destined for Heaven, time will once again have no meaning.
Similar to trying to get superconductivity to work at room temperature, you lower room temperature to -70 degrees, voila! Superconductivity.
Scientists call it a heat death. I would think it’s more like a lack of heat death.
Smugly: "It's aquariums, all the way up!"
Based on current thermodynamic laws each oscillation will have less usable energy than the previous one. Otherwise it is a perpetual motion machine. I don’t think that will stop many cosmologists since they believe that SOME thing came from NO thing.
Very true!
Drone?
I feel like I’ve been thrust into a wabbit hole.
...and here we have an infinite loop as there may be a god above our god and on and on and on... This is like calculating Pi, there is no end and some things it is better to just give it up and move on.
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