NASA Sees Glow of Universe's First Objects

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 19, 2006 @10:34AM from the first-post dept.

Damek writes with news from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which has captured light from what may have been the first glowing objects in the universe, light generated 14 billion years ago. From the article: "'We are pushing our telescopes to the limit and are tantalizingly close to getting a clear picture of the very first collections of objects,' said Dr. Alexander Kashlinsky... 'Whatever these objects are, they are intrinsically incredibly bright and very different from anything in existence today.' Astronomers believe the objects are either the first stars — humongous stars more than 1,000 times the mass of our sun — or voracious black holes that are consuming gas and spilling out tons of energy. If the objects are stars, then the observed clusters might be the first mini-galaxies..."

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Gross errors by Annirak · 2006-12-19 12:09 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I find two immediate errors in this article:
1) Considering that the speed of light is thought to be decreasing, 14 billion light-years isn't light from 14 billion years ago. It's far more recent than that.
2) If the big bang theory is to be believed, our matter (that we lovingly call the earth) was at the big bang. It was a part of one of the early objects that the article refers to. That means that we can't be seeing the early components of the universe. If we were, we'd see our own matter too. That would imply that our matter had exceeded the speed of light to arrive here.

Way to make claims that violate the theory of relativity, NASA.