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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by sho_hn on Thursday January 12, 2023 @05:48PM (#34361360)
This is how I understood OP, too. Last time we had a "crisis in physics", it was the early transition from classical physics to quantum mechanics, when some good new ideas had been coinceived of, but trying to reconcile them with the classical way of thinking and with experimental evidence required increasingly convoluted hacks in the models to make it all work - until folks like Heisenberg, Born, Jordan and Dirac found more holistic and clean ways to approach the problem space.

The number of question marks piling up in cosmology does feel similar. It will help to shape new theories that reconcile all this experimental evidence.

Re:The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early ... by dylan604 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @08:47PM (#34362949)
Sometimes the questions keep piling up until someone happens up on just the right question. That question itself wouldn't have been thought of except for the thinking of all of the previous unanswered questions. Then the big Eureka!! moment and someone gets a Nobel prize 20 years later.