Big Bang Demise and the Doppler Model
Back in 1929, Edwin Hubble realized that the farthest galaxies had a redshift in the spectrums, and those also had the greatest redshifts. That became known as the Hubble Law, and was the beginning of what became the Big Bang origin of the universe story.
Based on assumptions and speculations, secular cosmologists and cosmoginists did the math and expected evidence for the Big Bang in the Hubble telescope. It did not happen. The James Webb Space Telescope was built to be bigger and better — perhaps too good for their purposes.
Phantom Galaxy M74, Flickr / James Webb Space Telescope (CC BY 2.0) |
Hubble's Law is important to cosmology and astronomy, but new observations prompt consideration of another important scientific principle: The Doppler Effect. The most popular example is when waiting at the railroad crossing, the train's horn sounds and then the pitch gets lower after it passes the listener. As you know, sound is waves. So is light, so the Doppler Effect also happens in space.
It was thought that the universe is expanding because the fabric of space itself is also expanding. Take a felt marker and make some dots on a balloon to represent galaxies. As you blow up the balloon, those dots grow apart from each other. The balloon represents the fabric of space.
This cosmic evolution may all be wrong. The universe is probably expanding and we can see the receding galaxies — which are far more structured than predicted by the Big Bang. Instead of the fabric of space, the universe may be expanding simply because galaxies and things are moving. Creationists may use the Doppler Model to make predictions and see if this will further demonstrate recent creation.
We have previously seen that observations of distant galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are contrary to the predictions of the big bang but match predictions of biblical creation. Now, new observations of the angular sizes of distant galaxies challenge one of the essential underlying assumptions of the big bang – that the “fabric” of space is expanding as galaxies recede. Without an expanding space, a big bang is impossible. These observations support a new creation-based model of cosmology – the Doppler model – which makes specific quantitative predictions about future observations.
Although a bit technical, you can read the rest by flying over to "New James Webb Space Telescope Observations Challenge the Big Bang." The very technical version (math and all) is found at "Sizes of Galaxies in JWST Data Suggest New Cosmology."