At Scientific American: Webb Is Breaking the Big Bang Paradigm
The Big Bang as a basic concept will doubtless survive. But much “settled science” seems to be getting a, perhaps needed, shakeup.
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The Big Bang as a basic concept will doubtless survive. But much “settled science” seems to be getting a, perhaps needed, shakeup.
In a troubling indicator of the state of science denialism, James Webb Space Telescope findings were twisted to undermine the Big Bang theory.
Today, the mark of genuine disinformation is, often, the repeated, robotic use of the word “disinformation.”
Peering into the past, you never know what you might find
Don Lincoln, a Fermilab scientist, addresses claims that infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope cast doubt on the veracity of the Big Bang.