The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A major discovery, the object confounds theories of the young cosmos.
The ASSUMPTION of the uniformity of the early universe has always been exactly that: an ASSUMPTION. Anyone with half a fucking brain should’ve easily realized direct-collapse black holes should be expected in the Big Bang theory.
Anyone with a full brain knows that putting scientific phrasing into layman’s conversation conveys a much dumber message than is intended. “scientists assume…” yes because without making assumptions, they’ll never calculate anything. Assumptions get tweaked as evidence is presented. “Scientists can’t explain why…” scientists do not have a foolproof explanation. They have theories that are likely and make sense, bit nobody knows for absolutely certain that it’s true and extremely accurate. “Historians don’t know what happened…” because they weren’t there, but they probably have some good ideas.
I said what I said because I’ve heard far, FAR too many “scientists” use the assumption to dismiss blatant evidence against it. The constant pekachu facing at JWST pictures is frustrating beyond belief, and the dismissal of ideas before JWST provided evidence for those ideas has been tentamount to scientific dogma.
My original post is just pointing out that the dogma is, in fact, dogma.
The ASSUMPTION of the uniformity of the early universe has always been exactly that: an ASSUMPTION. Anyone with half a fucking brain should’ve easily realized direct-collapse black holes should be expected in the Big Bang theory.
Anyone with a full brain knows that putting scientific phrasing into layman’s conversation conveys a much dumber message than is intended. “scientists assume…” yes because without making assumptions, they’ll never calculate anything. Assumptions get tweaked as evidence is presented. “Scientists can’t explain why…” scientists do not have a foolproof explanation. They have theories that are likely and make sense, bit nobody knows for absolutely certain that it’s true and extremely accurate. “Historians don’t know what happened…” because they weren’t there, but they probably have some good ideas.
I said what I said because I’ve heard far, FAR too many “scientists” use the assumption to dismiss blatant evidence against it. The constant pekachu facing at JWST pictures is frustrating beyond belief, and the dismissal of ideas before JWST provided evidence for those ideas has been tentamount to scientific dogma.
My original post is just pointing out that the dogma is, in fact, dogma.