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4/4: #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope: More doubts about the #BigBangTheory and the age of the cosmos: 4/4 Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern "

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4/4: #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope: More doubts about the #BigBangTheory and the age of the cosmos: 4/4 Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate, by Paul Halpern

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08PV5CLZQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0

“We’ve never observed galaxies of this colossal size, this early on after the Big Bang,” says lead researcher Associate Professor Ivo Labbé from Swinburne University of Technology

“The six galaxies we found are more than 12 billion years old, only 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang, reaching sizes up to 100 billion times the mass of our sun. This is too big to even exist within current models."

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/galaxies-too-big-to-even-exist-discovered-using-james-webb-space-telescope

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0:00.0

Quiz question for you. Of the 20 outer London boroughs, how many do you think meet the

0:05.6

World Health Organization's safe limit for toxic air pollution? How many do you think?

0:11.7

Go on, say a number out loud. None of them. That's why the U-LES is expanding across

0:19.1

all London boroughs. Search U-LES 2023 to see if you're affected and if you are eligible

0:25.4

for funding to help replace your vehicle. Let's clear the air.

0:38.7

I'm going to stand the crowd like, OMG, I'm so amazed.

1:05.4

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelworth, Professor Paul Halpern. His new book is Flashes

1:11.3

of Creation. George Gamoff, Fred Hoyle and the Great Big Bang Debate. We've now found

1:16.9

evidence of the Big Bang or the Big Squeeze or the Creation Moment. We also have better

1:23.0

and better understanding of how long ago it happened, 13.8. The temperature of the cosmos

1:29.7

turns out to be, I believe, 3 degrees Kelvin, is that correct, Paul?

1:33.4

Yeah, more precisely about 2.73 degrees Kelvin, but 3 was about what they came up with

1:39.8

at that turn. And we follow Gamoff first because he's older and his health becomes a challenge

1:47.1

to him in the 1960s. He will die in 1968. He's a smoker and he has troubles with alcohol.

1:55.4

However, before he passes away, he recognizes that his work has contributed to these discoveries.

2:03.3

Is that correct, Paul?

2:05.3

Oh, yes. He started writing to people. He wrote to people. He wrote to Dickie. And his

2:11.1

student Ralph Halpern also was writing continuously to them to try to get the record straight

2:17.5

because some of the calculations that were done by the Dickie and Peoples Group essentially

2:23.4

reproduced some of the work that Halper and under the tutelage of Gamoff had done in the

2:30.5

1940s. So they were trying to bring attention to their earlier papers. And at one point,

2:37.0

Gamoff went to a conference in New York and at the conference, he made a statement. If

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