First Image from Webb
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http://nasa.gov/webbfirstimages[^] From several billion light years. Question: Will they now need to change the date of the Big Bang?
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http://nasa.gov/webbfirstimages[^] From several billion light years. Question: Will they now need to change the date of the Big Bang?
Wow, awesome pic. Makes you really think; what a infinitesimal little orb we live on and if there ain't no other life out there it would be a miracle.
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IIRC the current estimate is 14.5 billion years ago. If the galaxies shown are only from "several billion light years away" then I see no reason to adjust the estimate.
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That's indeed my question. What if the Webb Telescope finds something beyond 14.5 billion light years? When Hubble photographed the Ultra Deep Field sometime in 2003/2004, I believe it was 13.9 billion. Now, 14.5 billion. Next, what? Will our current theories of Physics need to get changed? Don't know.
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Wow, awesome pic. Makes you really think; what a infinitesimal little orb we live on and if there ain't no other life out there it would be a miracle.
The most expensive tool is a cheap tool. Gareth Branwyn JaxCoder.com
Someone had told that we are a speck on a speck on a speck on a speck on a speck ... This indeed proves that.
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http://nasa.gov/webbfirstimages[^] From several billion light years. Question: Will they now need to change the date of the Big Bang?
The numbers are just mind boggling. The [Milky way](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky\_Way) has around 100–400 billion stars. In that single image, there are hundreds of galaxies each with probably the same numbers of stars. And the size of the image is the width of a grain of rice at arm length distance.
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That's indeed my question. What if the Webb Telescope finds something beyond 14.5 billion light years? When Hubble photographed the Ultra Deep Field sometime in 2003/2004, I believe it was 13.9 billion. Now, 14.5 billion. Next, what? Will our current theories of Physics need to get changed? Don't know.
My fault, it is still estimated to be between 13.5 and 13.9 billion years old. I must have been mixing it with the age of the earth (4.5 billion). :doh: But yeah, if Webb shows galaxies further than 13.n billion light years then the age will have to be revised.
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The numbers are just mind boggling. The [Milky way](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky\_Way) has around 100–400 billion stars. In that single image, there are hundreds of galaxies each with probably the same numbers of stars. And the size of the image is the width of a grain of rice at arm length distance.
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And the size of the image is the width of a grain of rice sand at arm length distance.
Even better. :)
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http://nasa.gov/webbfirstimages[^] From several billion light years. Question: Will they now need to change the date of the Big Bang?
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My fault, it is still estimated to be between 13.5 and 13.9 billion years old. I must have been mixing it with the age of the earth (4.5 billion). :doh: But yeah, if Webb shows galaxies further than 13.n billion light years then the age will have to be revised.
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Ah - but they won't - unless someone else comes up with a different age of the universe. Distance to objects is determined by redshift. The higher the value, the further away. But it's not linear. A redshift of infinity is, by definition, at a distance in light years of the age of the universe, whatever that current value might be accepted as.
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http://nasa.gov/webbfirstimages[^] From several billion light years. Question: Will they now need to change the date of the Big Bang?
[To put it into context](https://imgur.com/gallery/QupCI1g)
