Ask the Gulch: Will the Webb's recent findings hold up under scrutiny?
The article seems to arrive at a conclusion but I'm interested in what Gulchers have to say. To say the implications are of "astronomical" significance is an understatement (pun intended).
Just like they "I am science" knew everything batty about Covid and how to change climate change that's always changing from changing by ignoring this country's vast natural resources of oil and natural gas that can last hundreds of years.
Pride goeth before the fall. Oops, that's Bronze Age Biblical. Ignore that. Ain't cool.
Hey, did you all know that men can have babies?
And check your priviledge before you dare deny smarter than you doctors to chop off your growing baby's parts to identify with a gender your baby ain't.
-- Max Planck
The "funerals" could be wrong ideas going away, or the status-quo defenders leaving the scene. Either way.
It is rather amazing how scientists can become entrenched and ideological, especially about things they "invented."
Right on the money.
They rejected the studies of Cycles and now it's returned to Bite Them in the Ass!
You had to keep an open mind.
There was no such thing as "settled science".
Big bang theory is based on current evidence while steady state fails in a number of ways, especially in CBR. The fact that guesses from the current theory are found wrong does not bury big bang theory but shows that more better data is needed. Still the evidence shows an expanding universe with a CBR of a few Kelvin and frequency shift of light due to expansion of space.
Off topic:
With respect to Atlas Shrugged I have found that some readers, such as my youngest brother, read it as a story about the evil capitalists against the common man like James Taggart who haven't a chance, being that they are victims. That probably is the difference between Republican and Democratic minds.
He likely knows he's a looters who exists thanks to the system, not because a parent sacrificed to feed him, and protect him...
About fifty years ago it occurred to me that there are those with a mental set who would read AS and get the opposite message from it. That brother is just wrong but my ten month younger the me brother is just evil and actually told me that he didn't ask to be born and thus should be taken care of for life. He found AS to be a book should be avoided by everyone.
What we have is a society of instant gratification with no thought for the future. This is true in nearly every aspect of life. Investing means putting that $5/day into a retirement account rather than spending it on an expensive coffee in the morning. Prudence means buying a used car instead of a new one. Being judicious is working hard and putting away a little extra for hard times. Being careful means not indulging one's self in one night stands and risking STD's (monkeypox, cough, cough) but waiting until marriage. The list goes on and on.
Interesting, thanks for sharing about your brothers. I had 3. 2 Were the typical leftists, which convinced me there was a genetic component (they looked more like each other), and the other 2 of us look liked each other, and to this are are far more conservative and much more hard working, value education.
Jordan Peterson speaks to this and it is refreshing.
I mean thinK about the Big Bang theory. Everything was compressed to the size of a grain of sand and then it expanded to billions of galaxies.WTF
galaxies are seen billions of light years out, they galaxies moved out there and the light had to move back to us
the scientists talk about something called "inflation" where "space" itself moved faster than light
ok, if "space can and carry a galaxy, why can't we do it in a space ship?
lots of questions...
One of the questions which has also come up recently is "does the speed of light change?" If so (and under what conditions), that could also come into play here...
Usually when competing theories collide... we start switching to the ones that more accurately PREDICT.
Of course, modern times, vaccines, and science DO NOT qualify as normal! Lol
The so-called "Big Bang" never made much sense to me, in the first place...like creation.
When I was a kid, Pluto was a planet.
It certainly adds no strength to the Earth being created in 6 days, 6,000 years ago or heliocentricism.