PSI Blog 20220314 “First stars” suffer a disconfirmation death
Thanks to James Nelson for this heads up:
Did
astronomers see hints of first stars? Experiment casts doubt on bold claim
“The first major attempt to replicate striking
evidence of the ‘cosmic dawn’ — the appearance of the Universe’s first stars
180 million years after the Big Bang — has muddled the picture.
Four years after radioastronomers reported finding a
signature of the cosmic dawn, radioastronomer Ravi Subrahmanyan and his
collaborators describe how they floated an antenna on a reservoir along the
Sharavati river, in the Indian state of Karnataka, in search of that signal.
“When we looked for it, we did not find it,” says Subrahmanyan, who led the
effort at the Raman Research Institute in Bengaluru, India. His team’s results
appear today in Nature Astronomy.”
More details in Nature:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00577-7
[GB: The “cosmic dawn” debunked by this Indian team
always was suspicious, what with elderly galaxies already having been seen at
greater than 13 billion light-year distances. A couple points come to mind
here:
1. Science is “self-correcting.” Experiments,
observations, and interpretations that don’t make logical sense eventually succumb
to further research. The silly Big Bang Theory is no exception.
2. The fact this debunking of a common claim of the Big
Bang Theory occurred in India is particularly significant. It indicates that
the paradigm propagandized by the US is not really swallowed wholesale by those
outside the paradigm. Many of us expect China and other financial powerhouses will
challenge the Big Bang Theory in the coming decades. Will
the US become a straggler in finally accepting Infinite
Universe Theory?]
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