{"id":3664,"date":"2022-08-24T16:35:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T16:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2022-08-24T16:38:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T16:38:46","slug":"astronomers-looking-at-webb-what-if-the-big-bang-didnt-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=3664","title":{"rendered":"ASTRONOMERS LOOKING AT WEBB: WHAT IF THE BIG BANG DIDN’T HAPPEN?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Like me, I\u2019m guessing that many of you have been enjoying the new, deep-space images being delivered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) since it came fully online. We\u2019ve been seeing remarkable star fields and beautiful dust cloud formations. We\u2019ve also been seeing galaxies far from the Milky Way that has never been seen before. And I mean\u00a0lots of new galaxies<\/em>. To the average layman, that\u2019s really just more pictures to \u201cooh\u201d and \u201cahh\u201d at. But for astronomers and cosmologists reviewing all of this new data, it isn\u2019t turning out to be a wonderful experience at all. Many of them have already begun reporting that there\u2019s something not quite right with the seemingly endless parade of ancient and frequently small galaxies out there. Few are saying it out loud yet, but they are speculating that one theory that has been taken as fact for a very long time now may not have been correct. The dreaded conclusion could turn out to be that\u00a0the big bang theory is wrong<\/a>,\u00a0and it may never have happened. (ia.tv)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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To everyone who sees them, the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images of the cosmos are beautifully awe-inspiring. But to most professional astronomers and cosmologists, they are also extremely surprising\u2014not at all what was predicted by theory. In the flood of technical astronomical papers published online since July 12, the authors report again and again that the images show surprisingly many galaxies, galaxies that are surprisingly smooth, surprisingly small and surprisingly old. Lots of surprises, and not necessarily pleasant ones. One paper\u2019s title begins with the candid exclamation: \u201cPanic!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why do the JWST\u2019s images inspire panic among cosmologists? And what theory\u2019s predictions are they contradicting? The papers don\u2019t actually say. The truth that these papers don\u2019t report is that the hypothesis that the JWST\u2019s images are blatantly and repeatedly contradicting is the Big Bang Hypothesis that the universe began 14 billion years ago in an incredibly hot, dense state and has been expanding ever since. Since that hypothesis has been defended for decades as unquestionable truth by the vast majority of cosmological theorists, the new data is causing these theorists to panic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Alison Kirkpatrick, an astronomer at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, is quoted as saying, \u201cRight now I find myself lying awake at three in the morning and wondering if everything I\u2019ve done is wrong<\/em>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not going to pretend that I have the scientific mental horsepower to understand the mechanics behind all of this, but science journals are quoting people who certainly should be able to understand it. If the universe has been expanding since its inception 14 billion years ago, the galaxies the furthest away from us should appear huge and have a certain amount of \u201cred shift\u201d in their light. But what Webb is showing us is almost exactly the opposite.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s a problem for the big bang theory. If the universe was born in a monumental blast with everything traveling outward at incredible speed, all of that matter should still be traveling and expanding. But it doesn\u2019t appear to be. In fact, the universe might not really be expanding at all. And if it\u2019s not expanding, then it probably didn\u2019t come from a massive explosion at a single point in the void. If that\u2019s the case\u2026\u00a0where did all of this stuff come from<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There are more issues to deal with. The most distant galaxies Webb has located are being seen when they were as little as 400 million years old, as determined by when the big bang is assumed to have happened. That means their stars should all still be hot and blue in color as all young stars are. But many of them are cooler and reddish in color, signifying that they should be at least a billion years old.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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According to the Big Bang theory, the most distant galaxies in the JWST images are seen as they were only 400-500 million years after the origin of the universe. Yet already, some of the galaxies have shown stellar populations that are over a billion years old. Since nothing could have originated before the Big Bang, the existence of these galaxies demonstrates that the Big Bang did not occur.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Scientists are obviously more worried about having gotten the science wrong and having to figure out a new theory if that\u2019s the case. But assuming this is true, it also could have ramifications for both religious and spiritual contemplation of the origins of everything. Creationists assure us that God (whomever you take that to be) created everything we see in a very short amount of time. With a bit of squinting, you can match that up as a non-scientific analogy to the big bang theory. But what\u2019s the scientific explanation for trillions of galaxies that appear to all just be \u201changing around?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Perhaps the faithful have a better escape hatch from this dilemma than the scientists. If God was able to create everything all at once in one tiny spot and send it careening across the void, why couldn\u2019t He create trillions of things wherever He wanted them to be and whenever He felt like it over a longer span of time than we\u2019ve been able to imagine thus far? Food for thought, to be sure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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To the average layman, that\u2019s really just more pictures to \u201cooh\u201d and \u201cahhh\u201d at. But for astronomers and cosmologists reviewing all of this new data, it isn\u2019t turning out to be a wonderful experience at all. Many of them have already begun reporting that there\u2019s something not quite right with the seemingly endless parade of ancient and frequently small galaxies out there.<\/font><\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knowledge-increased","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}