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Originally Posted by coldcreation

For now, here is something to chew on: Richard S. Ellis (Caltech) has studied the ultra deep images in detail. One of the outstanding features of the ‘early’ universe is that galaxies out to redshift 7 appear to have normal stellar populations. These are not the big, bright, ultra-heavy 500 solar-mass 1st generation stars thought to have reigned at the time. Moreover, galaxies are fairly evolved. This means that those distant galaxies formed at an epoch assumed to be the dark age—detrimental evidence to big bang cosmology.

Or, maybe a big bang event did occur in a space larger than the universe as we know it. That space may have already had old star clusters and the event that we call the big bang happened in the vicinity of some of them such that they ended up in the sphere that is the universe as we know it. That would mean they predate our own universe. This might explain galaxies that were already old and dying in the early universe.