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Revising the Age of the Universe - Dr. Rajendra Gupta, DSPod 189

Sep 25, 2023
01:54:03

Dr. Rajendra Gupta is a cosmologist and professor of physics at the University of Ottawa. He has dedicated his work to making sense of images from the new James Webb telescope that appear to contradict the established Big Bang timeline for the universe. Dr. Gupta's explains the recently observed mature galaxies at just 300 million years post-Bang by revising the age of the universe and invoking forsaken ideas like variable constants and tired light. The task remains to explain the cause of this variation. Tell us your ideas in the comments! (00:00:00) Go! (00:00:19) Raj Gupta in the press

(00:01:27) What drives you?

(00:08:28) Questioning the age of the universe

(00:12:23) Patreon Ask

(00:24:03) Keating & Rogan & doubting the Bang

(00:34:34) The Hubble Tension

(00:39:03) What does it mean to rewrite physics?

(00:45:03) No difference between distance & time in astronomy

(00:48:59) Can physics avoid material foundations indefinitely?

(00:56:51) Stiffness of space

(01:02:42) A reason why physical constants might change over time

(01:05:07) Ressurecting old unpopular ideas from the past

(01:12:41) Laboratory measurement of redshift

(01:24:18) Multiplicity of theories of nature

(01:30:54) Probabilistic approaches to understanding nature

(01:37:35) Reimagining mediators in fundamental physics

(01:49:47) Closing thoughts on the future of physics and cosmology

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