Webb Telescope: Predictions and Findings
It's gonna be awesome. I'm betting it destroys the Big Bang Theory, already under assault and somewhat precarious. And much, much more changed, undercut, confirmed, radicalized. The standard picture is going down it says here.
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"We may have misunderstood the universe ..." says Nobel physicist. That's just my bet.
More radical change stuff mentioning all the dark matter, dark energy, Big Bang were just ad hoc solutions destined to fail:
More radical change stuff mentioning all the dark matter, dark energy, Big Bang were just ad hoc solutions destined to fail:
Uh, the article actually refutes the statement.
OTOH
Interesting article. Cliff's Notes below.
"We're at a point where we're pressing really hard against the models we've been using for two and a half decades, and we're seeing that things aren't matching up," Scolnic says. "This may be reshaping how we think about the Universe, and it's exciting! There are still surprises left in cosmology, and who knows what discoveries will come next?"
Further predicting AI will laugh at our conceptions of Big Bang, singularity, black holes, particle physics, etc.
It's gonna be awesome. I'm betting it destroys the Big Bang Theory, already under assault and somewhat precarious. And much, much more changed, undercut, confirmed, radicalized. The standard picture is going down it says here.
"Nothing is what we thought ..." I'm doubling down on this is exactly where our model of cosmology is heading.
Venus has been looking particularly sexy these last few days...
We talking Venus Williams or that girl that was on Survivor a few seasons ago?
Come at me bro...
The graceful winding arms of the grand-design spiral galaxy M51 stretch across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Unlike the menagerie of weird and wonderful spiral galaxies with ragged or disrupted spiral arms, grand-design spiral galaxies boast prominent, well-developed spiral arms like the ones showcased in this image. This galactic portrait was captured by Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI).
So I was talking with this older guy (93) before our bar-poker league got started a week or so ago.
Don't remember how we got on the subject, but he told me he was a machinist for Ball Aerospace at one point in his career, and helped build the mechanism to hold Hubble's corrective mirror. Pretty cool.
Not directly on-topic, but adjacent. Fun for me as a space nerd to know a guy who helped with the fix.
