Jacob Navia
2022-09-15 23:29:09 UTC
The results of JWST are shaking the Big Bang model to its foundations. A
new article in Scientific American reports that a new cosmology needs to be
invented... See:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwsts-first-glimpses-of-early-galaxies-could-break-cosmology/
Yeah, the whole thing is coming down with a huge BANG!
But surely a new cosmology will appear, humans are like that. They need an
explanation of how all being arises, how the Universe started.
Four elephants sustain the universe proposed the Hindu researchers some
thousands of years ago. Well, that didn't pan out. What a surprise!
"In the beginning... " how many answers to that question have we invented?
The Big Bang goes to the same garbage bin that all other theories,
elephants included.
Personally, I do not know. I do not know what is life, even if I am a
biologist. I do not know my future, and the only sure fact that I do know
is my ignorance.
jacob
[[Mod. note --
It is very likely that 50 years from now our understanding of cosmology
will be different than it is today. It is also very likely that 50 years
from now our understanding of cosmology will in the main *refine* (as
opposed to overthrow) our understanding today.
This notion -- that scientific progress is mainly one of *refinement*
rather than over *overthrowing* -- is beaufully explained in Isaac Asimov's
classic essay "The Relativity of Wrong". Wikipedia has a brief synopsis
of this essay,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Relativity_of_Wrong#Title_essay
and there are lots of copies of the full essay online, e.g.,
https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
-- jt]]
new article in Scientific American reports that a new cosmology needs to be
invented... See:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwsts-first-glimpses-of-early-galaxies-could-break-cosmology/
Yeah, the whole thing is coming down with a huge BANG!
But surely a new cosmology will appear, humans are like that. They need an
explanation of how all being arises, how the Universe started.
Four elephants sustain the universe proposed the Hindu researchers some
thousands of years ago. Well, that didn't pan out. What a surprise!
"In the beginning... " how many answers to that question have we invented?
The Big Bang goes to the same garbage bin that all other theories,
elephants included.
Personally, I do not know. I do not know what is life, even if I am a
biologist. I do not know my future, and the only sure fact that I do know
is my ignorance.
jacob
[[Mod. note --
It is very likely that 50 years from now our understanding of cosmology
will be different than it is today. It is also very likely that 50 years
from now our understanding of cosmology will in the main *refine* (as
opposed to overthrow) our understanding today.
This notion -- that scientific progress is mainly one of *refinement*
rather than over *overthrowing* -- is beaufully explained in Isaac Asimov's
classic essay "The Relativity of Wrong". Wikipedia has a brief synopsis
of this essay,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Relativity_of_Wrong#Title_essay
and there are lots of copies of the full essay online, e.g.,
https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html
-- jt]]