2023-09-16 16:45:40
Published on September 16, 2023 at 6:45 p.m. Modified on September 16, 2023 at 8:02 p.m.
“The James Webb data revealed that some very large galaxies formed very quickly, in too short a time, at least according to the standard model [de la cosmologie]. This is not a minor discrepancy. This discovery is comparable to the appearance of parents and their children in a story while the grandparents are still children themselves. These harsh words, calling to rethink our vision of the cosmosare extracted from a column published by the New York Times on September 2, signed by the astrophysicist Adam Frank and the theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, well known in the United States for having published successful works popularizing cosmology.
Could the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) be the lethal weapon capable of bringing down the standard model of the Universe, which imperfectly describes certain phenomena but which has resisted all attempts to undermine it for decades?
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