This website is slop even if it overlaps with reality at times.

To be fair, there's always been something deeply wrong with how most people understand the universe.

The article over-dramatizes the story. This "deeply wrong" discrepancy is less than 10%. CMB measurements predict a Hubble constant of around 68km/s/Mpc. Distance ladder measurements get around 73km/s/Mpc.

Our current understanding of the universe the Lambda-CDM model is still wildly successful and it's more likely that the true correct model of the universe will be a correction/extension to Lambda-CDM rather than a completely new theory (although if it is a completely new theory that would be pretty cool).

Ick! What is this glass almanac thing? Try phys.org

Am I missing something or is there just no source given in this article? I would really like to be able to read more but I can’t find anything in the recent press releases from the JWST team or through a quick search. It doesn’t even say who the “researchers” are.

Also why is every other sentence bolded? It made it really hard to read.

Edit: It seems that the article is mostly taken from this 2023 NASA blog post. The raisin bread analogy is on Wikipedia.

Even if this isn’t AI slop this is a lazy article.

James Webb confirmation confirms something is deeply wrong with how we write headlines.

This is really exciting stuff, tbh. It's kinda amazing that in a world where the frontiers have been settled, most fields have had a century to a thousand years of refinement, there are still areas of science where we have giant gaps in our knowledge, like scientists first discovering gravity, or the circumference of Earth.

Someone, perhaps someone who is already alive, is going to discover new math or observations that fundamentally change how we see the universe, with far reaching implications on cosmic exploration, travel the birth and death of our universe, and (I'm sure) many commercial applications.

I fully expect scientists of the 25th century to roll our current level of knowledge of the universe in one with flat earth and geocentrism.

Every time they call the telescope just "James Webb" I wonder why they care what a comedy special (of comedians nobody knows about) director thinks.

The telescope or the dead homophobe?

We don't even understand what caused the incomprehensibly fast rate of expansion after the Big Bang known as "cosmic inflation", but basically JWST has confirmed that the rate of acceleration of the universe is, itself, accelerating beyond our models. Everything, everywhere since 0.01 quectoseconds^1^ after the Big Bang has always moved faster than we could predict, and we don't why!

“What the results still do not explain is why the universe appears to be expanding so fast! We can predict the expansion rate of the universe by observing its baby picture, the cosmic microwave background, and then employing our best model of how it grows up over time to tell us how fast the universe should be expanding today. The fact that the present measure of the expansion rate significantly exceeds the prediction is a now decade-long problem called “The Hubble Tension.”

1. Quecto, the smallest metric SI prefix, 1*10^-30^, is still 100x too large to measure the time between the Big Bang and Cosmic Inflation.

The hologram explanation is looking more attractive.

Isn’t this what has been attributed as evidence supporting the timescape model? It’s an alternative explanation for dark energy, in which it argues time is not the same in all places of universe.