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Originally Posted by Harry Costas
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/obj...objectid=40351
Its good that they found 500 galaxies in an area of about a seed in size.
But they make the assumption that the BBT is correct and proceed to confirm it by saying that these galaxies were formed less than a billion years. This is what I call raping science big time.
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Oh yes Harry. I could not agree with you more.
Recall, the predictions were that no galaxy should be out that far back in time. Galaxies were thought to be only begining to form, as clouds condensed from fluctuations visible today in the microwave frquency (viz the CMBR).
Wait until the James Webb Space Telescope sends back its first images in a few years. Thousands, millions, billions of galaxies (well formed, massive, spiral structures, old stellar populations, with heavy metals) will be discovered when the universe was thought to be a newborn baby, just out of the crib, at a time and place where protostars had not yet condensed from the primordial plasma.
For some strange reason, I have a nagging sensation that then too, pro-big bang cosmologists will be shouting victory. Talk about a bad joke. What good is a theory when its predictions fall prey to illusion, i.e., it can't get anything right. And yet politics continues as if detrimental fact (or contradictory evidence) is proof of the dogma.
