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.