Magically Frankensteining the Big Bang
As indicated several times previously, the Big Bang has little resemblance to its original incarnation. It has been Frankensteined over the years with material being added, some things lopped off because they are distracting to the main story, and fluffed up.
The James Webb Space Telescope is a successor to the Hubble, providing extremely detailed images of stars and galaxies out there, thataway. Instead of supporting the Big Bang and deep times as many hoped, it caused problems — and even supported predictions by biblical creationists!
The Passion of Creation with JWST image from NASA, both modified |
...a Big Bang interpretation of the data does not leave sufficient ‘time’ for these early galaxies to have evolved since the supposed Big Bang event. To solve these problems, physicist Rajendra Gupta (University of Ottawa) suggests radical revisions to the Big Bang model. These include incorporating an older explanation for galaxy redshifts into an expanding universe model, as well as changing values over time for the fundamental physical constants. He believes this will push the time of the Big Bang back another 13 billion years, making the universe almost 27 billion years old.
To read it all and be amazed at the hubris, click on "Big Bang Troubles? No Problem, Just Double the Universe’s Age!" Humorous moment: My wife was watching television while I was working on this. As soon as I took off the headphones, the subject turned to the Big Bang.