Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: *> simply asserting that a photon's wave is "stretched" as spce expands, is > just silly story which avoids serious analysis. AG*
*I don't think it's silly at all. I admit we don't yet know if Einstein gave us the ultimate answer to the question "why does space expand" but we do know that either the ultimate answer is a brute fact, or there is no ultimate answer because an iterated sequence of such "why" questions goes on forever. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* isw > > On Saturday, August 9, 2025 at 5:45:01 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: > > *Until very recently the most distant object our telescopes can see had a > redshift of about 14, but very recently there are reports that the James > Webb telescope has seen point-like objects that seem to have a redshift of > 25! Whatever these objects are they contain little or no dust as you'd > expect because dust requires elements other than hydrogen and helium which > need to be made in stars, but if we really are looking at an object that > has a red shift of 25 then we're looking at something that existed before > stars did. If confirmed that would be a pretty profound discovery, and > about the only thing that could explain them are Primordial Black Holes > created during the first nanosecond after the Big Bang.* > > > *JWST Found Objects at Insane New Distances (Redshift of 25?!)* > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saL_1R1WitA&t=797s> > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2%3D8P8xrJFWbZ371VRaG%3DW_sJ-zL0%3DRWur1%3DHygrD9EkA%40mail.gmail.com.
