Timeline for Does the other side of the Big Bang factor into JWST observations?
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| May 30, 2023 at 0:07 | comment | added | TonyG | I tried to flag this question as "withdrawn", in respect for the responses received so far. A mod removed my "withdrawn" note. I don't want to delete this question because I think people should be encouraged to asked questions, and to think through concepts with others, because that's what leads to real answers and innovation. Deleting questions related to science suppresses curiosity and the will to speak up to ask questions and propose ideas. If we leave this here as being unanswered, it falls into a category that doesn't accurately reflect what's happening here. I'm at a loss on this one. | |
| May 27, 2023 at 19:52 | history | edited | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 26, 2023 at 21:21 | comment | added | TonyG | My fundamental point was that our observations of any object, even local, might be influenced by lensing, where objects that are further away, larger, and more mature, may have their light lensed in such a way that it appears to us to be concurrent with others in the same field of view. Picture a billiard ball (light) on the near side of the table (some vector away) that is hit (lensed) and bounced off the far side (gravitational mass) and then comes back to us - simultaneous with another ball that has not travelled as far. Honestly, I've thought about that and can't justify the theory myself. | |
| May 26, 2023 at 21:18 | comment | added | TonyG | While I do have some formal education in the topic, I lack the ability and desire to debate terms with esteemed authorities - and I say that honestly with no sarcasm. So I have withdrawn the inquiry but leave it and the answers here for others with a similar thought process. | |
| May 26, 2023 at 21:14 | history | edited | TonyG | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 24, 2023 at 2:46 | comment | added | James K | @Tony. exactly! There is no point of emanation. The singularity is not a point in space. And so the entire framing of the question points to a fundamental misconception. The links that PM2ring posted may address this. | |
| May 24, 2023 at 1:47 | comment | added | PM 2Ring | Please see physics.stackexchange.com/q/136860/123208 BTW, the observable universe currently has a diameter of ~93.2 billion lightyears, see astronomy.stackexchange.com/a/13752/16685 & links therein, especially physics.stackexchange.com/a/63780/123208 | |
| May 24, 2023 at 1:03 | comment | added | TonyG | I'm using simple terms for visualization. The "origin" is the point of emanation, the singularity. "Sphere" is not intended to mean an actual shape, but whatever odd shape the universe had as it began to expand and continued. The universe didn't expand in one direction. Like a balloon, it expanded in all directions - we have no idea how uniform that shape might have been, but for this discussion, we can visualize it as "spherical". "Perpendicular" was simply an example of an angle relative to our point of reference. Any angle is valid. "Radial" just means the direction we're looking. | |
| May 23, 2023 at 22:19 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 23, 2023 at 21:56 | comment | added | James K | I've voted to close, as I don't think this is directly answerable. It isn't a direct duplicate of the linked question, but it assumes something that isn't true: that "radial", "perpendicular" "origin" "spherical pattern" and "other side" have any kind of meaning when applied to the expansion of the universe and the big bang. They don't, which makes the question un-answerable. | |
| May 23, 2023 at 21:42 | comment | added | James K | see astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/669/… | |
| May 23, 2023 at 21:41 | comment | added | James K | This seems to be based on the "expansion of matter from a point in space" misconception. The language of "ejected in a spherical pattern" seems to indicate that you think it was ejected from somewhere (a "centre" to the universe) No such centre exists. | |
| May 23, 2023 at 21:32 | history | edited | TonyG | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S May 23, 2023 at 21:25 | review | First questions | |||
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| S May 23, 2023 at 21:25 | history | asked | TonyG | CC BY-SA 4.0 |