PSI Blog 20230424 Death Throes of the Big Bang Theory-JWST Keeps
Finding Galaxies That Shouldn’t Exist
Paradigms: The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Spiral galaxy. Credit: Yahoo! Finance.
Folks not in the business of cosmogony look askance at the
silly claims of the Big Bang Theory. Although its absurdities are obvious to
outsiders, that is not true for those financially dependent or formerly
dependent on the paradigm.
Remember that, according to Kuhn[1], a
paradigm is more than just a theory. It includes all the publications based
upon it, which include all the interpretations based upon the fundamental
assumptions underlying the theory. It includes all the paraphernalia used to
justify those interpretations. The longer a false theory exists, the greater
the number of accoutrements it gathers. The Big Bang Theory is the biggest of
them all, for it is a theory about all that exists.
Thanks to George Coyne for the heads up on reporter Andrew
Griffin’s recent article charting the demise of the Big Bang Theory:
James
Webb Space Telescope keeps finding galaxies that shouldn’t exist, scientist
warns
Here is a quote that sums up the conundrum:
“Professor Boylan-Kolchin’s paper, ‘Stress testing ΛCDM with
high-redshift galaxy candidates’, has been published in Nature Astronomy this
week.
It suggests that the information from the JWST proposes a
profound dilemma for scientists. The data indicates that there might be
something wrong with the dark energy and cold dark matter paradigm, or ΛCDM,
that has been guiding cosmology for decades.
Usually, galaxies convert around 10 per cent of their gas
into stars. But the newly discovered galaxies would have to be converting
almost the entirety of it into stars.
That is theoretically possible. But it is a departure from
what scientists would ever have expected.
Further observation of the galaxies should better clarify
their ages and masses. It might show that the observations are incorrect: that
supermassive black holes at their centre are heating the galaxies up, so they
look more massive than they are, or that they are actually from a later time
than expected but look older because of imaging problems.
But if they are confirmed, then astronomers may have to
change their understanding of the cosmos and how galaxies grow, to adjust their
model to account for the unusually large and mature galaxies.”
The Other Shoe Prediction
We
predicted there is yet another shoe to drop on the properties of these
“elderly galaxies”: the discovery of heavy elements that have been recycled
from large stars that take billions of years to develop the required pressures.
Many of these eventually become neutron stars, whose collisions
end up scattering heavy elements throughout the galaxy. Soon we will be
hearing about those heavy elements causing additional puzzlements for
cosmogonists looking at spectra from the farthest galaxies.
As always, the mainstream papers and summaries tend to
present the contradictory data and some speed-up ad hocs, without mentioning
any hint that the Big Bang Theory is done for and must be replaced by Infinite Universe Theory.
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[1]
Kuhn, T.S., 1996, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (3rd ed.): Chicago,
University of Chicago Press, 212 p.
