Posted on 06/24/2024 12:05:20 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What if we could see back to the beginning of the universe? We could see galaxies forming. But what did galaxies look like back then? These questions took a step forward recently with the release of the analysis of a James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image that included the most distant object yet discovered. Most galaxies formed at about 3 billion years after the Big Bang, but some formed earlier. Pictured in the inset box is JADES-GS-z14-0, a faint smudge of a galaxy that formed only 300 million years after the universe started. In technical terms, this galaxy lies at the record redshift of z=14.32, and so existed when the universe was only one fiftieth of the its present age. Practically all of the objects in the featured photograph are galaxies.
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“Most galaxies formed at about 3 billion years after the Big Bang, but some formed earlier.” Prove it.
Just imagine all the ones we cannot see because they are too far away and the light has red-shifted to below infra-red...................
I think I am safe saying that none of us were there to witness this. All of this is based on empirical data and the conclusions may or may not be correct. Just like most of us now believe that the Earth does not ride on the back of a turtle, but that was not always true. This is just the latest that some scientists believe to be true. You are welcome to argue your points too.
Theoretically they don’t exist. The earliest light we can see is in microwaves, when galaxies weren’t even a gleam in the CMBR’s eye.
I’m honestly giddy the so called, “Experts, scientist, physicist and researchers” had the hood slammed down on their heads regarding the age, formation of galaxies, and the origin of the universe.
It reminds me of all the political experts, professional pundits, talk show hosts, career politicians and political analyst all got it wrong about Trump in 2016. It confirmed what I always suspect...They really don’t know zip.βΊ
There is the theory that the fabric of space is expanding as well as the motion of objects. This causes everything that is far from us to appear to be moving away from us. And the farther away the faster everything is moving away which is what we observe for distant objects. The percentage of change in frequency change from gamma to infra red is huge, but from infra red to DC is really small. What we may be seeing is an event horizon where any light farther will never reach us because the accumulation of the expansion of space makes things move away at greater than the speed of light at the vast distance. So things shifted to IR or to radio frequencies may only be as far as we can see. There is no way to know if there is anything beyond that.
Or as Reagan so aptly put it regarding Democrats:
"It's not that they don't know anything. It's just that everything they know is wrong."
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