Did James Webb Prove Big Bang Theory Wrong? Here Are The Facts

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[whatdamath]

Two videos I mentioned but forgot to post earlier:

[thehdgaming]

There's been so many clickbait and completely false "articles" and "Webb discovery" videos since the launch of JWST... The only content creators I watch for real info are Anton and Dr. Becky...

Edit: I never imagined that this post would get this many likes... 🤯

[benjaminboizelle]

As an astronomer myself, I really appreciate the careful and nuanced discussion you bring. Helps to better inform the public when they see misleading (at best) headlines. Thanks, Anton.

[vryusvin]

Thanks so much, Anton! I haven't seen anyone talk about how the title of that paper on arXiv is actually a joke. It says "Panic! At the Disk", which is a reference to the band name "Panic! At the Disco". Just mentioning it.

[ZacharyDietze]

Short answer: *Yes.*

The slightly longer answer: The stereotypical theory that we all thought about with an exact approximate time? *Yes.* Completely false, without a question. However, that doesn’t mean that the universe didn’t begin in such a way in general though, we just simply now don’t know how old the universe actually is or how it even began in the first place. Measuring light to age isn’t exactly the best idea anyways since some results always came back with stuff as way younger or way older than possible, long before this telescope was a thing. It was always called the Big Bang *Theory* for a reason. I do still think that this theory is oddly specific and limited, so while exactly disproving nor proving it, it still has me reach the same conclusion that I always have, and it’s that it’s extremely flawed and bias.

[RandySpycyWeinr]

Click bait is such a cancer...thank you Anton for not being part of the problem.

[tjames]

Thanks Anton for being a source for thorough & high quality scientific inquiry/analyisis.

[julesreppert]

And even if someone is disappointed that current science theories are proved wrong. They shouldn't, this is how our science progress.
Great video like always

[surelywoo]

Thank you for putting the new discoveries in context. This was really helpful to differentiate the new findings from the hype.

[Dajobi]

Anton - one of the best cosmology communicators in modern times.

[jonathansturm]

Actually Sir Arthur Eddington predicted the background radiation would be ~3K based on his measurements of starlight before Big Bang Theory. IIRC Gamow’s prediction was an order of magnitude greater. No BBT hasn’t been disproved, but it has quite a few problems and that seems like an excellent reason to do more research. Astronomy/cosmology has come a long way in my 71 years and I was particularly pleased when I received a Distinction for my term paper when studying cosmology in my 50s.

[nektu]

Thank you for addressing this. It was getting a bit frustrating seeing all the click bait YouTube videos misleading lay audiences about this.

[penkshugar]

its arrogant for man to think we know what happened 13 billion years ago, we barely know what happened 1300 years ago let alone 13 billion.

[shimmy]

'Panic! at the Discs'
is a pun of
'Panic! at the Disco'

Which is a music band

Surprised I've not seen anyone else mention this anywhere.

[PetraKann]

The “Big Bang” theory says nothing about the moment t=0.
The Big Bang deals with the observed expansion of the universe.
To say “the big bang didnt happen” doesnt make sense.
The big bang is not a singular event at a specific time - the big vang is still happening

[venadore]

the paper title is a pun on the band Panic! At The Disco.

[MegaBubble]

I knew I could count on you, Anton.

I've been scrolling through and watching a few of these videos with catchy titles using buzzwords like "shocking" and "horrifying" to describe the discoveries coming from the Webb telescope, and I've been trying to find a video that wasn't just sensationalizing the whole thing to get views. Its been a long while since I’ve watched one of your "What da math" vids, but when I saw your face on the thumbnail I knew I'd get the facts, the whole facts, and nothing but the facts. Thanks for keeping those of us who are out of the loop, in the loop on all things outer space. 👍

[EksaStelmere]

I am personally entertaining that the age of the universe is a bit more than we initially expected. Maybe closer to that 18 billion-year estimate.

[neioni]

Panic! At the disks is probably just a play on Panic! at the disco, as in, the band

[rossmikovich]

Hannes Alfven and Halton Arp, two very well-respected astronomers, supported the idea that redshift is an indicator of age but not distance.

A high-redshift quasar is like a fly on your windshield, where modern astronomers believe that fly is miles away and therefore huge. There are hundreds of examples of high-redshift quasars being connected by filaments to much lower redshift galaxies, falsifying the thought that high redshift objects must be billions of light years away in distance.
For as many “confirmations” of Big Bang theory, there are equally powerful falsifications that have been observed but swept under the rug with untestable ad hoc hypotheses.