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Death Throes of the Big Bang Theory-JWST Keeps Finding Galaxies That Shouldn’t Exist

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.

 

  

2 comments:

George Coyne said...

The latest research in the link shows the Milky Way Galaxay to be 13 billion years old."In a new paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers Maosheng Xiang and Hans-Walter Rix of the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy used a survey of nearly a quarter of a million stars to clock the development of the Milky Way, taking advantage of existing knowledge of stellar lifecycles to better understand the longer galactic lifecycle.

The spiral disk of the Milky Way can be split into two populations, the thin, inner disk of younger stars, of which our Sun belongs, and a thick disk, somewhat older stars that extend further out from the plane of the galactic spiral. Surrounding the galaxy overall is also the halo, a sparse population of older stars.

Xiang and Six found that the thick disk likely began forming around 13 billion years ago, or 800 million years after the Big Bang, while the inner galactic halo formed around two billion years later. The assembly of the inner halo took place through ancient Milky Way’s merger with the Gaia-Enceladus galaxy, a dwarf galaxy that mostly merged with our galaxy between 8 and 11 billion years ago.m the "So Xiang and Six used the data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (Lamost) in China, and the European Space Agency’s Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics (Gaia) spacecraft to survey 247,104 subgiant stars ranging in age from 15. Billion to 13.8 billion years old."

The author does not explain how there can be 15 billion-year-old stars when the hypothesized Big Bang occurred less than 13.8 billion years ago.

An important point to emphasize is that galaxies being discovered by the JWST within a few hundred million years post the supposed Big Bang are estimated to be as mature as our 13 billion-year-old Milky Way. Because the light from these newfound galaxies took about 13.5 billion years to reach us that would make them about 26 billion years old in a universe that the Big Bangers claim in under 13.8 billion years. It would appear that the Big Bang theorists are severely lacking in basic arithmetic skills. The only logical conclusion is that the JWST images have completely falsified this ridiculous theory.
Here is the link: https://www.independent.co.uk/space/milky-way-galaxy-galaxies-stars-b2042313.html

Glenn Borchardt said...

Thanks so much George. Looks like the universe is getting older and more infinite by the minute. 15 billion years! Egads!

Also, I like your math better than the expanding space calculation.