Posted on 12/26/2021 8:15:36 AM PST by PJ-Comix
The James Webb Telescope was successfully launched yesterday, Christmas Day. It is now on route to a point about a million miles from earth where it will be in orbit around the sun and pointed out beyond the solar system. Hopefully, setting up the Webb telescope will be as successful as its launch.
Okay, so here is my question: What AMAZING discoveries do you think the Webb telescope will reveal? The Hubble telescope was able to take us back in time to very early after the creation of the universe but the Webb telescope, using infrared technology will take us back almost to the moment of the Big Bang.
The Hubble revealed that the universe is much more vast and chock full of galaxies that we ever imagined. Also one discovery that SHOCKED scientists is that the universe is expanding at an INCREASING rate rather than slowing down eventually to contract upon itself as was generally expected before the Hubbell telescope.
Given that the Webb telescope will give us a view of the universe to a point much earlier in time than the Hubble, what do you think will be discovered that we did not know before?
I think we will run into the fact that until about 300,000 years after big bang the universe was opaque. The cosmic microvave background is as far back as we can observe. We may be able to get more details on items very far away (such as a galaxy discovered recently that is 38 billion light years distant as calculated by red shift) and much better images of just about anything it is pointed at.
Perhaps. But my understanding is that it images objects in only three spatial dimensions and it was not designed to be alle to look into the Lost Socks Dimension.
-PJ
lol ... Good catch!
I wonder if the universe is actually way larger, but due to the constraints of the time factor, we can only detect so far out.
Just like our outer planets and the exoplanets were discovered by analyzing perturbations in the data, will this telescope be able to detect perturbations at the edge of the known universe that indicate something exists further out?
That would be cool if the first images were to come on or about Independence Day!
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The edge of everything there is. More excitingly, proof there is no way to see beyond the edge.
They’ll find more ballots
I've always thought of Einstein and the 'Big Picture' guy but Lemaître as the "God is in the details" guy.
My hope is that Webb finds where all my missing ballpoint pens have gone.
“...Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid lifestyle, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of the good life...."
The theoretical basis for dark energy as an expansionary force on the cosmological scale arose out of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, but Einstein postulated that this expansionary force was checked by a cosmological constant that made the universe static in size. Edwin Hubble's observations by telescope and calculations based on General Relativity though led him in 1929 to propose, correctly, that Einstein was wrong and that the universe was actually expanding and not static.
Passing unmated Tupperware lids and containers riding on magic carpets woven from unmatched socks...
It will take a year. The telescope has to travel a million miles out before establishing a solar orbit. Apparently they want to station the telescope to permenently sit in earth's shadow.
It will only take a couple of weeks to cover that distance. Most of the time will be spent setting up the telescope which is supposed to be fully functional within 6 months.
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It will reveal more trillions of galaxies.
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