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Webb Observing The Dark Ages Of The Universe (YouTube vid)
YouTube ^ | 6/28/2022

Posted on 06/28/2022 8:41:09 AM PDT by LibWhacker

Short (6m33sec) video describing what cosmologists think the very early universe was like and how the Webb will let them see it.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: telescope; webb
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1 posted on 06/28/2022 8:41:09 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

I expect the Webb telescope will reveal surprises.


2 posted on 06/28/2022 8:44:28 AM PDT by marktwain
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I agree. I can’t wait to hear a scientist say “We were totally wrong about this”
(theory or that theory)
It’s getting closer to that first picture- it’s gonna be exciting!


3 posted on 06/28/2022 8:50:12 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: LibWhacker

There’s nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth!


4 posted on 06/28/2022 8:52:13 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: LibWhacker

We haven’t found the middle or the edges yet. Good chance we never will.


5 posted on 06/28/2022 8:59:55 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: equaviator

We stand at the edge of the universe every second.


6 posted on 06/28/2022 9:05:47 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: LibWhacker
This should answer a lot of questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETplj2I1iCY

7 posted on 06/28/2022 9:09:58 AM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (John 14:6 )
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To: lurk

I can see for light years and light years and light years and light years and light years
oh Yeah


8 posted on 06/28/2022 9:20:24 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: LibWhacker

Good video.


9 posted on 06/28/2022 9:31:22 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: marktwain
"I expect the Webb telescope will reveal surprises."

I expect'jaw-dropping' suprises.

They're scheduled to show the first images on July 12.

10 posted on 06/28/2022 10:03:47 AM PDT by blam
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To: LibWhacker

I am sick to death of these never ending youtubes about what the Webb is supposedly going to see. Everyone with a clickbait headline. Wake me up when they actually have some pictures.


11 posted on 06/28/2022 10:32:41 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Yeah, cool seeing distant stuff for the first “time”, but not “ in the past”.

Folks really do understand that we won’t be looking “ back in time”, just “in the distance”, right?

God has you fooled otherwise.


12 posted on 06/28/2022 11:05:27 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: blam
I expect'jaw-dropping' suprises.

You won't see anything you're not supposed to see. NASA data and imagery is encrypted and classified. Whatever imagery or data they release has been through a sanitization/declassification process.

The reason we never went back to the Moon is not because we forgot how.

13 posted on 06/28/2022 11:06:09 AM PDT by JustaTech (A mind is a terrible thing)
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To: Manly Warrior
Folks really do understand that we won’t be looking “ back in time”, just “in the distance”, right?

Considering the speed of light, the light we are seeing is very old.

It takes a year for a light to travel a light year.

14 posted on 06/28/2022 11:09:06 AM PDT by marktwain
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Uh huh.
Agreed. But we are looking back in time, just at light emitted by an object far away.
A review of how the speed of light is derived is an interesting convention. An agreed upon working solution. In fact, some learned folks actually admit that the speed of light and an image are not very closely related.
Working science, not absolute science. Pretty standard.


15 posted on 06/28/2022 11:54:26 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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Why No One Has Measured The Speed Of Light
YouTube · Veritasium
Oct 31, 2020

Check this out. It’s worth 20 minute


16 posted on 06/28/2022 12:23:45 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DpTn6Ewhb27k&ved=2ahUKEwjclump6dD4AhVbK0QIHflYARcQwqsBegQIJxAE&usg=AOvVaw3U3pMsYkj9kSdW08mERYF-

Here’s the link. I think...


17 posted on 06/28/2022 12:25:37 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: JustaTech

“...The reason we never went back to the Moon is not because we forgot how.” [JustaTech, post 13]

The Apollo program ended early, because the American public’s attention span petered out, and we didn’t want to spend any more money.


18 posted on 06/28/2022 1:17:04 PM PDT by schurmann
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The Mediacracy did not want us to be too far ahead in the Space Race.

How dare we show the merits of Capitalism.

19 posted on 06/28/2022 1:28:21 PM PDT by marktwain
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“...In fact, some learned folks actually admit that the speed of light and an image are not very closely related.
Working science, not absolute science. Pretty standard.” [Manly Warrior, post 15]

If the engineering folks didn’t have a pretty good idea what the speed of light is, radar would never work.

c = fl

where f is frequency, l is wavelength, and c is a constant. For electromagnetic radiation, c is the speed of light. About as absolute as anything can be, this side of Divine Perfection.

And visible light occupies only a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum.

The spectrum includes radio, radar, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X rays, cosmic rays (named in order of steadily increasing frequency).


20 posted on 06/28/2022 1:28:44 PM PDT by schurmann
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