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To: alexander_busek
That's a clever analysis; I don't know enough cosmology to be able to say whether it's true as to reasoning, but your result is pretty accurate. I think they expect JWST to see back to something like 2 or 3% of way back to the Big Bang, although I don't think they're exactly certain of "how far back" they will see.

It seems to me like there's some assumptions you're making in your essentially linear approximation of peak black-body radiation intensity over time that I'm not knowledgeable enough to be able to judge as to validity, but your reasoning don't seem obviously wrong.

Also the resolving power in terms of dynamic range of JWST's image sensors is another issue; it seems to me that that would have a bearing on your theory. I'm not sure that a distant object just a few degrees above the 105°K temperature limit would stand out from the background enough for the JWST sensors to get much of a read on it. I suppose if they integrate light for many weeks or months (like they did for the Hubble Deep Field pictures) they could get enough signal-to-noise ratio to resolve such an object.

39 posted on 01/15/2022 11:36:26 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom
[,,,] bearing on your theory.

Oh, please! Not even "back-of-the-envelope" calculations! Just "spit-balling" here! For "ordinary" solid objects located in a uniform environment having a different temperature, Newton's Temperature Law would apply - meaning: logarithmic cooling. My talking about the temperature halving with every doubling of age was just a ballpark estimate.

I'm not sure that a distant object just a few degrees above the 105°K temperature limit would stand out from the background enough for the JWST sensors to get much of a read on it.

Again: No "degree" sign for Kelvin. The unit is "Kelvin," not "degrees Kelvin."

I suppose if they integrate light for many weeks or months (like they did for the Hubble Deep Field pictures) they could get enough signal-to-noise ratio to resolve such an object.

Again: Just "spit-balling" here, but I would think that a more than 100 Kelvin difference would be more than sufficient.

Regards,

41 posted on 01/16/2022 12:09:49 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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