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New Hubble Ultra Deep Field In Infrared
Hynee writes "Just in time for Christmas, HubbleSite has released a Hubble Ultra Deep Field redux. The original was in visible light; this version, five years on, is in infrared (1.05, 1.25 and 1.6 um).
The observation is in support of the upcoming JWST, which will observe exclusively in infrared, but the newly installed WFC3 does seem to provide some extra resolution over the 2004 visible observations with WFC2."
...and assuming the big bang theory is correct (which I have the audacity to doubt upon).
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The observational "evidence" has required the BB theory to be refined frequently. In itself there's nothing wrong with refining a theory, but a theory having to be refined a lot starts to lose its credibility.
About the word "perhaps": the whole BB theory itself is a big "perhaps", especially as there are other explanations possible for the same observations. It's just that currently, the consensus is that the BB theory fits these observations the best.
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"Also the Big Bang makes predictions of the distributions - relative amounts, or abundance - of the light elements and their isotopes."
I think you have it backwards. The Big Bang theory was "refined" to match the observed distributions of the light elements.
If the observed distribution was in line with some previously established predictions that the BB theory brought forward, then it would have added significantly to the theory's credibility. Backfitting a theory to observed data hurts its credibility.
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Ok, "refined" should perhaps have read "adapted".
What I meant to say is that a theory that has to be constantly backfitted to match observations instead of predicting those observations loses credibility.
I'd love to see how the Big Bang theory fits observations that the universe is open (i.e., expanding at an accelerating pace). Oh yeah, of course, dark matter has been invented to backfit these observations... brilliant. Good luck with that!
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