13/4/2011
As often happens when I claim to have found some fact in my theory, an example will pop up somewhere in my field of attention and confirm the hypothesis. It is often a year later lately, I am lucky at that and it must be maddening for those who dismiss my theories as ‘coincidences’, ‘uninformed’ or downright ‘daft’ and ‘crackpot’.
In ‘Cosmology’, which maybe better renamed in ‘Welcome to my Cosmos’, I wrote in an aside two years ago:
I expect the newly upgraded Hubble telescope and Large Hadron Collider to come up quite soon with pictures and data that show the universe is much older than the Big Bang theory predicts, 13.7 billion years at present, which will throw the complete cosmological theory in disarray!
Well, the moment seems near.
I was not aware of the fact that only in January there had been a major discovery of an early galaxy, 480 million years after the BigBang, it was hailed as a great discovery on the brink of the mystery lying further back, the Bang itself and it is interesting to see what was said then compared with what was said a few weeks ago with a new discovery.
“NASA continues to reach for new heights, and this latest Hubble discovery will deepen our understanding of the universe and benefit generations to come,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, who was the pilot of the space shuttle mission that carried Hubble to orbit, was quoted as saying in the report.
News Release 13 april 2011:
“Astronomers have found a galaxy that could have formed just 200 million years after the Big Bang. The international team used a natural gravitational lens to spot the newly discovered object in images from the Hubble Space Telescope. It could be a member of a long-sought and large population of galaxies containing stars that helped re-ionize the neutral material that filled the cosmos at that time, making it transparent to ultraviolet light. The team publish their results in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.”
Are we to believe that the Universe, bursting forth out of ‘Nothingness’ in the BigBang, in complete chaos, but even then being magically ‘inflated’ soon after birth by some Divine Inspiration, known as ‘Mysterious Inflation’, are we to believe that this Universe, or is it a Multiverse by now, had shaped itself more or less as it is today, just in a wink, that is 200 million years, that is: the margin of it’s calculated occurrence, with full fledged galaxies and all?
Scientist: “When we looked at the spectra, two things were clear. The redshift placed it very early in cosmic history, as we expected. But the Spitzer infrared detection also indicated that the galaxy was made up of surprisingly old and relatively faint stars. This told us that the galaxy was made up of stars already nearly 750 million years old – pushing back the epoch of its formation to about 200 million years after the Big Bang, much further than we had expected,” explained Eiichi Egami, part of the research team.
Richard, the lead researcher, said: “We have discovered a distant galaxy that began forming stars just 200 million years after the Big Bang. This challenges theories of how soon galaxies formed and evolved in the first years of the Universe.”
You see the 200 million years here? It is the margin of uncertainty about the exact date of the BigBang, 13.7 billion, plus or minus 200 million. You’d expect them to be delighted, because there is now less uncertainty, after all 13.5 billion is now impossible, so it must be between 13.7 and 13.9 billion, that is a huge improvement you’d say. So we have now really reached the edge of time, which is supposed to be the beginning of the universe.
But they are not as jubilant as they still were just in January, while they definitely have a new record to celebrate.
I think they have a problem, a huge problem, the problem I predicted above. This ‘earlier than expected’ is ominous and we can see why. It could be the 13th of April 2011 will signify the beginning of the end of the BigBang theory (but it is also possible it is the proof that their BigBang universe was always just as old as the Hubble-telescope can reach back in time, or some other embarrassment of that kind). I have predicted the upgraded Hubble would soon find stars which are older than the calculated universe, this stage seems already nearly reached in 2 years with a complete galaxy within the margin of the Bigbangs origin. To save face they can only push their date back to 13.9 billion years. Never, I think, in a race against time, so much prestige has been at stake in science as in this one. When they are wrong it is absolutely devastating for their credibility.
“No 14 billion will do, no 20 billion again, we’ve been there, it’s been enough, 13.7-13.9 billion and that is it, otherwise: rejected; and don’t come back.”
I guess it will take some time before we get the explanation of this full-grown old youngster on the edge of BigBang time. I will keep you informed.
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