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Originally Posted by Harry Costas
Hello Coldcreation
When we see past the 13.7 Gyrs deep field point we would expect to see existing galaxies as we see them near.
This will be the nail on the coffin for the BBT.
But! the BB people will come up with some fantasy theory to explain the observation. They always do.
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True, very true.
The James Webb Space Telescope will see further than Hubble, albeit still not without problems. There are very few photons emerging from depths close to the visual horizon. It can still be argued that galaxy formation was quicker than expected after recombination. However, the galaxies than can be tested at say 10 Gyrs in the past are already beginning to show signs that indicate that massive star formation was well underway, if not already completed by the time we picked up the image, heavy metals, indicating that the fusing of hydrogen to helium and so one down the line to heavy elements had already occured.
One of your links included a galaxy (in the lower right side of the ultra deep field plate) that already, in my opinion, put a nail in the coffin. With the James Webb Space Telescope many more will be observed (that is a prediction).
That galaxy has been known for some time now. I was wondering if more have been discovered (I've been offline for a while now). Got any more info on any old galaxies in the baby universe?
