Ive just read an article on a recently published paper “Early metal-enriched baryon cycling before the midpoint of cosmic reionization. Yongda Zhu, 2026”
Up till now it has been predicted that there could only be first generation young stars surrounded by pristine gas at 500 million years after the “beginning” of the Big Bang. Yet now, thanks to JWST, new data analysis has shown us that not only are there no new young early BBT stars visible at all and instead only impossibly mature galaxies. But there is also no pristine gas observable at this early epoch either. What this recent JWST data analysis found in this ‘early’ epoch was impossible to explain complex chemical and element signatures. Elements and chemical signatures not expected to be able to occur at such early times so soon after creation in a Big Bang universe. In fact these complex chemicals and these mature galaxies are only predicted to occur much later in the Big Bang model. Essentially JWST shows us that the Big Bang at 500 million years of age looks no different from our nearby mature local universe.
So now we have not one but two failed fundamentally important predictions for the Big Bang model. Without confirmation of these predictions one would reasonably expect the Big Bang model to be considered a complete scientific failure.
However as usual, rather than admit the BBT has failed once again, theorists ignore these failures and pretend instead that yes once again this is another amazing success story for the BBT! How is this possible?
A simple theoretical sleight of hand is all that’s necessary for Big Bang theorists to rescue their preferred model: The reason why all those predicted young stars of the ‘early’ universe can’t be found in JWST deep field images is because the newly discovered chemically complex gases, that incidentally were also not predicted to exist at all in an early Big Bang model, were covering up the evidence of the existence of these imaginary young stars.
So the story now is that yes, there were a generation of young stars in the early universe as predicted by the BBT. But we can’t see them because they are covered up by complex chemical gases in the same early universe. Chemical gases which up until now were not only unpredicted but also considered impossible under the very same Big Bang model.
In other words instead of finding only new young stars and pristine gaseous environments in the early BBT universe, JWST has discovered that the early universe looks virtually identical to our current mature universe.
Unfortunately this incredible failure of Big Bang theory once again hasn’t deterred the supporters of the Big Bang model. Because rather accepting that the data contradicts the fundamental basics of Big bang theory, this new unexpected analysis of JWST data is considered to be a confirmation of and a massive success for the BBT!
As always a failure of prediction, so endemic to BB theory, can easily be turned to an advantage.
Because in Big Bang La-la land:
two failed old predictions = one successful newly minted prediction.
Pseudoscience at its best thanks to brilliant maths.