MurphyGuy
It just needs a bigger hammer
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Like what?I always been a person that runs completely on Logic and Science for answers. I have not been to Church in 30 years except for weddings and funerals.
i have always been calculating and analyzing why something has or has not happened and yet there are these moments in my life when no logical or rational explanation can account for what I am seeing or an event that has occurred. For me it is like the voice of God reminding me that there are forces at work that we just cannot comprehend.
Not really, it's just making us rethink some of the models for how the universe behaved early on. We determined the universe is flat a couple decades ago, and therefore flat=infinite. Gotta love math.The James Webb is certainly make us rethink the idea of a never ending universe.
The real problem with our models is that we can't account for dark energy and dark matter, and so some models are a bit wonky due to the unknown variables. Well.. I guess we could also include the lithium abundance problem in that wonky-ness, but that's been around for a long time and its an issue that is sort of isolated in its own right. It's a mathematical curiosity that doesn't seem to have any real affect on our theories.
James Webb hasn't really discovered anything significant yet, but that doesn't stop them from playing up every little quirky surprise as if its some mind blowing new thing. If their reports were limited to "Yup, the pictures are a lot better than Hubble and WOW, look at that one over there" then funding for the next big project would be limited to something less enthusiastic.
Hubble did make mind blowing discoveries.. The Hubble deep field was a science changing eye opener of unparalleled achievement. Had Hubble not made those discoveries, we probably wouldn't have the James Webb today.. because the funding wouldn't have been so enthusiastic.
But give JW its chance.. its only been operating for a year, it needs time to look around. And unlike Hubble that could point in any direction at any time, JW has to wait to look around with the orbit of Earth around the Sun. JW has a very narrow ability to look left or right because it must keep its heat shield mostly centered on that big ball of fire..
By extension, the fact there is a new testament means god didn't get it right the first time. Let that sink in for a moment.The new testament is based on real people whose existence has been proven. The only issue is how much of the details of the stories been exaggerated during the time when they were handed down as oral stories.
We humans never exaggerate anything.