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Re:The James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our mo... by scotty79 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:36AM (#35218347)
Not sure if JWST is capable of that but I believe next step in furthering our insignificance will be concluding (due to looking closer and closer to the Big Bang and finding contradicting evidence like huge, very old galaxies) that Big Bang was not a creation event just a "small", "local" annihilation of "some" amount of matter and anti-matter that kinetically blew remaining stuff apart sort of dragging the deformed space-time along. So we can't have any hopes of seeing any evidence of actual beginning of the universe or even any proof that it wasn't eternal.
Re:The James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our mo... by jadbox on Sunday March 19, 2023 @08:49AM (#35218435)
Indeed. It seems there's some mounting research that the universe may have always existed, and this awareness calls into question our physical and philosophical notions of nothingness (or lack of absolute nothing in the universe).
Re:The James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our mo... by hirundo on Sunday March 19, 2023 @09:09AM (#35218573)
> I believe next step in furthering our insignificance

The next step seems to be coming from the computer science department rather than astronomy or biology, with the growing demonstrations that intelligence can emerge from simple mechanical operations.

Re:The James Webb Space Telescope will ripple through our mo... by scotty79 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @09:15AM (#35218614)
This seems to be the current step rather than next one.