TO: Joel Leja, Eberly College of Science, Pennsylvania State University
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your article(s): The James Webb Space Telescope discovers enormous distant galaxies that should not exist, Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, February 22, 2023

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First email: Friday, 20 October 2023 5:05 PM

Dear Prof. Dr. Joel Leja:

Does it seem that we are just piling on with questions with fewer and fewer answers and more confusion? Some are questioning the Standard Models, particularly the LambdaCDM.

Why not question the big bang?

I am. This page was done in light of Jon Butterworth’s work at CERN: https://81018.com/butterworth/ Just today, I began struggling with a re-write of that page: https://81018.com/standard-models/

I recognize how idiosyncratic it is, but aren’t radically-new concepts needed? Isn’t our past forty years of incrementalism our problem? Thanks.

Warmly,

Bruce

Bruce E. Camber
https://81018.com/bec/
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Direct quotes:

“The most massive galaxies in our sample are estimated to have masses [two to four times lower] than that of our own Milky Way,” Leja wrote. “This was astounding — we’re finding galaxy candidates as massive as our own galaxy when the universe was 3% of its current age.”

Space.com

Leja said that before astronomers start rewriting cosmology theories to explain how these galaxies came together so quickly after the Big Bang, they will have to ensure the odd red dots they are looking at are not something else. Most of the alternative explanations, however, also require entirely new concepts, Leja said. 

Space.com

“For example, stars in the early universe might emit light in exotic ways due to their lack of heavy elements, and perhaps we’re not incorporating those in our models,” Leja wrote. “Or alternatively, perhaps our understanding of how stars form locally, e.g. how many stars form from gas as a function of the mass of the stars, is totally inapplicable in the early universe. These things would also be exciting to discover and would also overturn our understanding of star formation in the early universe…”

Space.com

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