It was with much anticipation that the world waited for the first images from James Webb Space
Telescope. These conveyed the splendour and beauty of the universe we live in. Truly spectacular
images captured the heart and imagination of the world. But in this excitement a startling truth
was being revealed which is clearly showing that there are fundamental problems with the current
theory both in terms of the evolution of galaxies and the idea that the universe is expanding...
Planning for the James Webb Telescope started in the early 1990s.
The high Z telescope concept would have a fully baffled large aperture infrared
telescope that would recede to an orbit at 3AU. This distant orbit would mean
it would have reduced light noise from zodiacal dust. These plans were later
revised and instead the telescope would be parked at the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point.
Construction would start in 2007 but final completion did not happen until November 2016.
In March 2018 it suffered a delay caused by the
telescope's sun shield tearing during a practice deployment.
Eventually, it was launched on the 25th of December 2021 and
reached its L2 Lagrange point in January 2022. The first images were released on
11 July 2022 and have stunned the world with their beauty and clarity. To many,
these images are just like a high res version of the old Hubble images but to many cosmologists,
these images are not at all what they expected to see and not what their theories had predicted.
Eric Lerner recently published an article in iai news titled 'The Big Bang didn't happen'
and discusses what he thinks the James Webb images really show.
Some of you will be familiar with Eric Lerner. I covered his plasmoid quasar model several years
ago as well as the interview I did discussing this and his plasma experiments. He is a strong
supporter of the plasma universe and has written a book outlining why the Big Bang never happened.
This book was originally published in 1992 and since then he has written numerous articles one
of which was published in the Royal Astronomy Society titled ' Observations contradict galaxy
size and surface brightness predictions that are based on the expanding universe hypothesis.
More recently he published a paper prior to the JWST turning on outlining his predictions
of what they would find and not find. I will link all of these down in the description.
So what were the most important points that Eric Lerner raises in the article?
He opens by discussing some of the recently published papers that were
released soon after the images started coming in.
In fact one paper published with the title "Panic! at the Disks", which is a tongue
in cheek reference to the band Panic! at the Disco. What this paper reveals is that there are
up to 10 times more disk galaxies than previously thought based on the Hubble images and that Galaxy
morphology changes less quickly than previously believed. JWT shows normal galaxy structure much
earlier than previously thought. This challenges the idea about mergers being a very common process
and implies disk galaxies have existed in large numbers for a significant time. This means that
the morphologies of some disk galaxies like the Milky Way have remained UNCHANGED for over 10
billion years. And lastly, the paper points out that Distant galaxies in the rest-frame optical,
despite their appearance in HST imaging, are not as highly clumpy and asymmetric as once thought.
The paper concludes that galaxy morphology changes less quickly than previously believed and the
James Webb Telescope images show normal galaxy structure much earlier than previously thought.
It is thought that the first galaxies were relatively small, clumping together from
small building blocks bit by bit. Cosmologists have speculated that the tiny galaxies grew up
through colliding with each other. Merging to become more spread out.
They had expected to see badly mangled galaxies scrambled by many collisions or mergers. But what
the James Webb Space Telescope actually shows are galaxies with smooth disks and neat spiral forms.
The same as we see in today's galaxies. So if these galaxies were common in what they consider
to be the early universe it destroys the idea that mergers are how these galaxy evolved to be spiral.
Another prediction from the big bang is that galaxies in the early universe should
actually look larger due to the expansion of the universe. This might sound a little
counterintuitive. The size you perceive an object to be, normally only depends on its
actual size and its distance from you. In the Big Bang, the universe is expanding. Add into
this that they now also think this rate is accelerating. So if we imagine an object that
emits light from two points. If the universe was static, the angle you saw those lights separated
by would directly relate to the distance between them and their distance from you.
But if the universe is expanding you need to take into account the fact that when the light
was originally emitted the universe was much smaller and hence took up a greater proportion
of the Universe's scale than the object would now. This means that if the Big Bang is correct
then as we look at older and older galaxies they should start to appear larger and larger.
So what is the JWST revealing? Smaller and smaller galaxies.
Even galaxies with greater luminosity and mass than our own Milky Way appear in these images
to be two to three times smaller than in similar images observed with the Hubble Space Telescope,
and the new galaxies have redshifts which are also two to three times greater.
This is totally against the idea of an expanding universe and means that these distant galaxies
must be extremely small to compensate for the expansion illusion. And by small this would
imply implausibly small. As an example, GHz2 was identified in one of the papers published.
It is far more luminous than the Milk Way and yet based on their calculations is only
300 light years in radius. This is 150 times smaller than our Milky Way. To put this into
context this would make it 600 times brighter than the brightest galaxy in the local universe.
This puts its density at tens of thousands of times that of the present-day galaxies!
With few or no mergers,
there is no way tiny galaxies could grow to be these high-density beasts.
The James Webb Space Telescope is equipped with many different filters to allow it to see in
different wavelengths. This allows it to view the colours of the distant galaxies. From this,
they can work out an estimate of the age of the stars within the galaxy.
This is based on the idea that stars age along what is called the main sequence of stars,
starting out as hot blue stars and ageing to yellow and eventually red stars.
The problem is that the James Webb Space Telescope images show galaxies that were supposedly formed
only 400-500 million years after the Big Bang. Analysis of the light from these galaxies
reveals that they have stellar populations that appear to be over a billion years old!
Not only do they see these complex galaxies which have stars that predate the Big Bang but
you would also expect that as you look closer and closer to the Big Bang event that there should be
less and less galaxies and eventually none at all. Once more the James Webb Space Telescope
is throwing a spanner in the works. A recent paper published in Nature shows that galaxies
as massive as the Milky Way appear to be common a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Not only this but the authors state that the new images show that the mass density of the highest
redshifted galaxies is at least 100 times more than the theory predicted. How could these dense
large galaxies form so close to the supposed start of the universe and also be so complex?