The James Webb Space Telescope Is Finding Too Many Early Galaxies
January 14th, 2023Via: Sky & Telescope:
Images and spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that the first galaxies in the universe are too many or too bright compared to what astronomers expected.
Evidence is building that the first galaxies formed earlier than expected, astronomers announced at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington.
As the James Webb Space Telescope views swaths of sky spotted with distant galaxies, multiple teams have found that the earliest stellar metropolises are more mature and more numerous than expected. The results may end up changing what we know about how the first galaxies formed.
Interesting comments.
I wonder whether the big bang singularity, assuming it occurred, is not best conceptualised as a geometric *point*.
“The results may end up changing what we know about how the first galaxies formed.” Correction: “The results may end up changing what we *think* about how the first galaxies formed.” If what we have “known” till now is wrong, then it wasn’t knowledge, it was a model that will now be proven inaccurate. And what we might eventually “know”, based on the new data — unless you can guarantee it to be true for all time — is also not knowledge; rather, it is conviction.
Yes, the term Science — which means knowledge — is hype, always has been.
haha Back in the 1990s, I took an introduction to astronomy class in college. The professor chuckled as he was giving the lecture on the Big Bang. He said, “As nuts as it sounds, that’s the best we can do at the moment.”
Since there’s a fair bit of doubt about the Big Bang percolating here in the comment section, I’ll throw this out there—if there was no Big Bang, maybe the redshift observed in these galaxies is inherent to them and is not related to velocity, so we don’t know how far they are away. The redshift would be related to their age, which is the time elapsed since they were “born” as a quasar from the center of an active galaxy, and subsequently condensed down to a small companion galaxy to the “mother” galaxy. The redshift jumps down in a quantized way over time according to scientist Halton Arp. From Wal Thornhill’s website:
Astronomy has little to celebrate in 2009! – holoscience.com | The ELECTRIC UNIVERSE®
Instead of there being dark matter–the “missing mass” is just mostly unseen dust in space, much of it ionized (plasma), which enables massive amounts of electrical energy to flow through space in the form of Birkeland Currents.
Stellar bodies are hypothesized to be electrical discharge phenomena—fusion would play more of a minor role up in the corona, according to Dr Donald Scott:
(1507) Donald E. Scott: Electric Sun & the Mystery of “Hot” Solar Wind | Space News – YouTube
Another proponent of the electric sun model Dr Pierre-Marie Robitaille, debunking a debunker:
(1507) Pierre-Marie Robitaille Debunks “Professor” Dave! – The Sun – YouTube
Image of the supermassive black hole in M87 just an artifact?:
(1508) Three Honest Astronomers Agree – The Black Hole Image is an Artifact?! – YouTube
The Safire Project with Dr Clarage and others is pretty interesting:
(1507) The SAFIRE Project – The SAFIRE Plasma Reactor – YouTube
With some (dubious?) speculation:
(1507) Michael Clarage: Function in the Cosmos | Thunderbolts – YouTube
The DemystifySci Podcast is pretty cool (structured water):
(1508) Electric Weather and Material Atomics – Dr. Gerald Pollack, University of Washington – YouTube
More discussion about the new JWST images of “distant” galaxies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdJ3RFXE2_0