and…..

“If the universe is only 14 billion years old, how can it be 92 billion light years wide?”
Dr. Lincoln at Fermilab (2020)
https://youtu.be/vIJTwYOZrGU
9:46

I also believe in a cyclic cosmos. Expansion contraction expansion and so on. If not then you must believe in a universe that came from nothing or the contact of two dimensions for example. And if that happened why can the contact not happen at any time and any place and in fact could happen right after the first contact in virtually the same place? Thus 2 Big Bangs from close to the same point. There should be huge amounts of matter passing through our space right now from other big bangs outside ours.

The explanation that made the most sense to me was to imagine a bun with currents baking, the mass remains the same, but everything expands, the currents (galaxies) grow further away from each other over time, and there is no “center” , they simply grow further apart.

That said, I’m absolutely delighted that the James Webb is breaking current ( pun intended!) Theories… As has been mentioned, it is the very definition of science, propose a theory, then try your hardest to disprove it.

I have always been very skeptical of the whole “dark matter” and “dark energy” concepts taken as gospel. They were created as place holders until theory caught up with observation, but have become accepted as genuine facts.

This is how we learn, put aside any notions set in stone, and re-evaluate your thoughts and theories according to the evidence.

I’m loving the James Webb telescope!! ( And my they never let anyone change its bloody name!!)

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/cosmology/where-was-the-big-bang-located/

I could have known this with more thought, because I did know that the expansion of the Universe was NOT the galaxies moving away from each other but rather the expansion/creation of the more space in between them.

Here is his pullquote.
“The Big Bang happened everywhere at once. And everywhere started small and grew big.”

If they are looking at something 12 billion light years away. How can that even be.

That galaxy has since moved. It has had 12 billion years of “expanding universe” to MOVE. What we are seeing is something that was only 1.7 billion light years from the point where the Big Bang Singularity exploded and created the Universe.

So I went looking for something I had seen a long time ago and found it.
This
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/CMB_Timeline300_no_WMAP.jpg
It’s an image that shows that the Universe actually virtually stopped expanding at about 400 million years. The growth of the Universe for the next 13 billion years or so looks almost nil. when you consider the scale of time.

So from where we are physically I understand that we are seeing something way to the left end of that graphic.

That graphic presents the Universe as a flat disk expanding over time. Do we know where the center is? Do we know “Where” in relation to Earth the Big Bang happened?

this is really confusing

A bit off topic but related…. I wonder what a full scale, space radio telescope that can observe in the 30 mhz or below would hear/see? That’s a whole region where there hasn’t been a lot of work done I think because the ionosphere cuts about all of it off.