Posted on 08/30/2022 3:45:27 PM PDT by aimhigh
Over the past several weeks, NASA's ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has allowed humankind some unprecedented glimpses into the farthest reaches of our universe. And unsurprisingly, some of these dazzling new observations have raised more questions than they've answered.
For a long time, for instance, scientists believed the universe's earliest, oldest galaxies to be small, slightly chaotic, and misshapen systems. But according to the Washington Post, JWST-captured imagery has revealed those galaxies to be shockingly massive, not to mention balanced and well-formed — a finding that challenges, and will likely rewrite, long-held understandings about the origins of our universe.
"The models just don't predict this," Garth Illingworth, an astronomer at the University of California at Santa Cruz, told WaPo. "How do you do this in the universe at such an early time? How do you form so many stars so quickly?"
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God.
Have they tried spraying Windex on the lens and wiping it?
Like with a cloth?
Translation - The Big Bang theory or universe formation just went down the tubes.
Stars weren’t supposed to be there?
I was expecting a Vogon constructor fleet.
Scientists made things up and guessed for so long they can’t believe it when it’s real ,LOL
Uh, follow the science?
No, just early star and galaxy formation.
“Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.”
Nobel Prize physicist Richard P. Feynman
Are you gonna believe me or you’re lyin’ eyes!?!?
Science is never settled. As Albert Einstein once observed, “
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
Einstein knew whereof he spoke. As a young physicist in Switzerland, he confronted a stubborn scientific consensus – supported by a mountain of peer-reviewed evidence – that decreed Newtonian physics was settled science. In 1905, when Einstein dared to challenge it – to publish the special theory of relativity – the scientific establishment promptly reared up against him. Prominent Nazi physicists even accused him of promulgating disreputable “Jewish science.”
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Yep!
Oh yes but we’re 10000000% sure about man-made climate change.
Can it be? Is The Science at least tacitly admitting to not having all of the answers? That is actually pretty surprising.
Are stars and galaxies being (a lot) OLDER than 13.5 billion years a problem? NAH!
Order = God. Chaos = Devil
Why could they believe it was only chaos out there?
Truth is we know nothing.
Scientists like being puzzled. If they thought they already knew it all, why have a space telescope?
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Curious how they even know which direction would be the center of the universe?
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