Hubble's deepest shot is a puzzle

Here's an interesting article that folks here may enjoy:

IS HE 01075240 A PRIMORDIAL STAR? THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EXTREMELY METAL-POOR CARBON-RICH STARS

[Snip from Hugh Ross' Site, RTB.org]

Astronomers in Japan may have found a significant piece of evidence for the big bang creation event. Their measurements on the star HE 0107-5240, the most iron-poor star yet observed, show that it may indeed be one of the long-sought first generation stars predicted by the hot big bang creation model. The big bang model predicts that virtually all first generation stars would be very massive and, thus, would have burned out some 13.5 billion years ago. These stars would be undetectable today, though a small first generation star can burn long enough to still be visible. However, such a star takes so long to form that some of the gas from which it accretes gets polluted by the ejecta from the supernova eruptions of the much larger first generation stars. The Japanese team showed that HE 0107-5240 has the chemical signature of such pollution and probably is indeed a first generation star. Future measurements, soon to be performed, will permit a definitive conclusion.

"The universe has to end somewhere?
Doesn't it?
They are looking at the end of the universe. Very simple."

Does it? I mean, are we defining the universe as meaning the farthest extent of matter? If so, then perhaps I could agree that there is an outer limit.

But if you are are attempting to conceive that there is a point in which existence no longer exists, then I would encourage you to stop thinking in terms of finites (finite constructs are what we are all used to dealing with)

"But if you are are attempting to conceive that there is a point in which existence no longer exists, then I would encourage you to stop thinking in terms of finites (finite constructs are what we are all used to dealing with)"

Isn't it easier for you to imagine a poured concrete wall, spray painted with flat-black paint, than to imagine a picture that exists, on and on, and on & never, ever ends.

Damn thing about it, though, something has to be on the other side of the poured concrete wall.

Infinite is just hard to comprehend, just as it would be to live forever.

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