Dark energy bombshell sparks race to find a new model of the universe

 

A map of the universe created by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). Each dot is a galaxy, with Earth in the centre.

Image courtesy of DESI collaboration and KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor

Joel Kontinen

Can we find a new model of the universe? As scientist are fed up with dark energy and gravity, as they do not in the way that they assumed, they are supposing a new theory of the way our university works.

However, it might not be as good as the old model as it also has the universe creating itself  probably from nothing.  

“In the wake of bombshell findings that suggest dark energy might be weakening as the universe expands, physicists are considering replacing the standard cosmological model of the universe with exotic new theories that say gravity works differently to how we thought. Ideas involving string theory, a new fundamental force or even a form of gravity that changes over time are all options on the table.”

Source:

Alex Wilkins 2025 Dark energy bombshell sparks race to find a new model of the universe | New Scientist 2 May 

Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after the big bang

 

Image courtesy of Weichen Wang

Joel Kontinen

“The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang - surprisingly early for a spiral galaxy of a similar size to our Milky Way.”

 According to Big Bang cosmology, no galaxy should be this young, but research shows that this is incorrect and not true.  The Big Bang according to Darwinists cannot produce a galaxy so fast. The millions of years that are placed there, but this is an incorrect testimony of evolution that cannot happen in our time.  

“A newly-discovered spiral galaxy, dubbed the Big Wheel, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang – far earlier, considering its size, than astronomers thought possible.

Themiya Nanayakkara, at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, says the discovery was an accident. He and his colleagues were looking for quasars, energetic regions at the heart of some galaxies, with the James Webb Space Telescope in November 2022 when a “large spiral galaxy popped up”.

Source:  

James Woodford 2025 Big Wheel: Giant Milky Way-like galaxy formed unusually soon after the big bang | New Scientist 17 March

 

A big cosmological mystery': Newfound cosmic corkscrew defies our understanding of the universe

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Joel Kontinen

Some astronomers have discovered a cosmic ring that's so enormous, it defies explanation with our best theories of the universe. The structure is so large, it defies one of the simplest rules of cosmology.

They say that N the Big Ring, the gigantic spiral of galaxies and galaxy clusters is 1.3 billion light-years wide and has a circumference of 4 billion light-years, making it one of the largest objects ever seen. 

“Because the Big Ring is so far from Earth — 9 billion light-years away — its light is too dim to be viewed with the naked eye. But if it were brighter, it would appear 15 times the size of the full moon in the night sky. “

They say that “The ring was found close to the constellation Boötes near the 3.3 billion-light-year-wide Giant Arc, which was discovered by the same team in 2021”

But the research is based on the big bang version of cosmology, that cannot be trusted.

Source:

Ben Turner 2024. 'A big cosmological mystery': Newfound cosmic corkscrew defies our understanding of the universe (yahoo.com) 15 January

Scientist Discovered An Arc That Too Big For The Cosmos

 

The Giant Arc. Grey regions show areas that absorb magnesium, which reveals the distribution of galaxies and galaxy clusters. The blue dots show background quasars, or spotlights Image courtesy of  Alexia Lopez/UCLan, far use doctrine

Joel Kontinen

 

The universe is big and is cleverly designed.

 

Scientist have discovered “A crescent of galaxies spanning 3.3 billion light-years is among the largest known structures in the universe and challenges some of astronomers' most basic assumptions about the cosmos. 

 

The epic arrangement, called the Giant Arc, consists of galaxies, galactic clusters, and lots of gas and dust. It is located 9.2 billion light-years away and stretches across roughly a 15th of the observable universe. “

Source; 

Mann, Adam.  2021. 'Giant arc' stretching 3.3 billion light-years across the cosmos shouldn't exist Live Science 11 June.

Dark Energy: “The Worst Theoretical Prediction in the History of Physics”

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Joel Kontinen

Dark energy is in big trouble. It was assumed to make up 68.3 percent of the mass of the universe, but it might be a mere illusion.

Live Science calls it the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics. Physicists don’t know what it is or if it is.

“We're clueless," astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson admits, but he’s unwilling to throw overboard the model that requires it.

Dark matter hasn't fared any better. Experiments can’t find traces of it.

The Big Bang model has been struggling for years. The facts don’t support it.

Early galaxies grew too fast, there’s no clear evidence of cosmic inflation (that, by the way, has been called a totally bonkers idea), and antimatter is still missing.


Source:

Pomeroy, Ross. 2017. The Worst Theoretical Prediction in the History of Physics. Live Science (1 December).

Older Than the Universe? Methuselah Star HD 140283 Is a Big Problem for the Big Bang

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Joel Kontinen

The Methuselah Star, or more formally known as HD 140283, is an enigma for those who believe the universe began with a big bang some 13.8 billion years ago.

“At just 190 light years away, we can measure its luminosity, surface temperature, and composition very precisely; we can also see that it's just beginning to evolve into the subgiant phase and towards becoming a red giant. These pieces of information, combined, allow us to get a well-constrained value for the star's age, and the result is disturbing, to say the least: 14.46 billion years,” astrophysicist Ethan Siegel writes in Forbes magazine.

And that is not its only problem. HD 140283 does not look like it is among the earliest stars:

“Yet some of the other properties it displays, like an iron content of 0.4% the Sun's, suggest that it's very old, but not quite among the very oldest stars of all. Although there is an uncertainty on the age of around 800 million years, that still places it uncomfortably early, and hints at a potential conflict between how old the stars are and how old the Universe is.”

In other words, some stars have to be older than HD 140283, if Big Bang cosmology is true.

HD 140283 is a population II star that has relatively little metal. The BB model postulates that these stars were preceded by population III stars, which are assumed to be extremely massive and hot with hardly any metal.

The Big Bang model is built on questionable assumptions, such as the initial quantum fluctuation, cosmic inflation, the elusive dark matter and missing dark energy as well as antimatter that is likewise missing.

In addition, the earliest galaxies formed too quickly.

The Genesis model does not have these problems.

Source:

Siegel, Ethan. 2017. The Greatest Cosmic Puzzle: Astronomers Find Stars That Appear Older Than The Universe. Forbes (7 September).

Cosmic Inflation Is a ”Totally Bonkers Idea," Cosmologist Says in New Scientist

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Joel Kontinen

Recently, New Scientist (NS) outlined five dilemmas that believers in solely naturalistic processes have to face when they consider astronomy.

For want of a better word, it calls them coincidences. And they are all over the place.

In naturalistic thinking, we can thank a quantum fluctuation for all the fine tuning that is evident in the universe.

One of the dilemmas is the uniform temperature of the universe. It is almost astounding. NS gives the gist of the problem:

”THE temperature of the cosmic microwave background – the radiation bathing all of space – is remarkably uniform. It varies by less than 0.001 degrees from a chilly 2.725 kelvin.”

For naturalists, it is indeed a huge mystery:

”But while that might seem natural enough, this consistency is a real puzzle. For two widely separated areas of the cosmos to reach thermal equilibrium, heat needs enough time to travel from one to the other. Even if this happens at the speed of light, the universe is just too young for this to have happened.”

This has led to an explanation that is anything but scientific:

”Cosmologists try to explain this uniformity using the hypothesis known as inflation. It replaces the simple idea of a big bang with one in which there was also a moment of exponential expansion. This sudden, faster-than-light increase in the size of the universe allows it to have started off smaller than an atom, when it would have had plenty of time to equalise its temperature.”

Then comes the great admission:

“''On the face of it, inflation is a totally bonkers idea – it replaces a coincidence with a completely nonsensical vision of what the early universe was like, ' says Andrew Pontzen at University College London.”

When they leave out intelligent causes, the resulting hypotheses are bonkers and completely nonsensical.

But obviously, they cannot allow a Divine foot in the door, as professor Richard Lewontin famously put it.

Source:

Clark, Stuart. 2016. Space is all the same temperature. Coincidence? New Scientist. (26 October).

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