TGD view of the paradoxical finding of the James Webb telescope

I found a fascinating Youtube video this) in LAB360 with the title “James Webb Telescope Detect” more than 700 Galaxies at the Edge of Our Universe” summarizing the findings of the James Webb telescope.

Summary of the findings of the James Webb telescope

The existence of more than 700 galaxies a few hundred million years after BB is in sharp conflict with the standard Big Bang Model although it is consistent with the cosmic expansion. Distance measurements indeed use cosmic redshift to deduce the distances of the galaxies. In any case, the James Webb telescope is profoundly shaking the foundations of cosmology. It seems that one can safely forget the standard story about the formation of stars and galaxies and also inflation as the generally accepted story of what happened before that.

In the standard picture, the epoch of reionization starts 1 billion years after the BB as the fog of gas is cleared by reionization so that photons can propagate. No signals hould arrive from the epoc preceding reionization. These 700 galaxies should not be there since they are too young, existing 370-500 million years after BB.

The mass of the galaxy serves as a measure for the age of the galaxy but 6 galaxies with age .5 Gy and 10 times bigger than the Milky Way have been found! This makes one wonder, what will be found when one goes farther back in time?

JW can see galaxies as extended objects with visible structures and this provides a lot of additional information about the composition of these too-early birds.

1. Complex organic molecules, found also in smoke/fog, were found: this is 1 billion years too early! These molecules, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) (see this), are big molecules, containing hundreds of atoms. What adds to the mystery, is that PAHs were found in regions where there are no stars or star formation but not in regions where stars are forming! PAH world hypothesis states that PAHs have played a key role in prebiotic life leading the emergence of RNAs (see this).
2. Also the locations of these molecules can be determined by JW in terms of their spectra. The distribution of the molecules is not uniform as one might expect. These galaxies can have the same mass as the Milky Way. The mass serves as a measure for the age of the galaxy but the age of these galaxies, according to standard cosmology, is only 10 percent of that of the Milky Way. This creates a paradox.
3. One particular galaxy, GN-z11 (see this) is observed as it existed 13.3 Gy ago.
   1. GN-z11 is found to contain an exceptionally high proportion of nitrogen and abundance of stars.
   2. Birth of globular star clusters (see this) have been found in GN-z11. This finding is especially paradoxical since they are regarded as very old objects! The compositions of O,N, Na, and Al vary inside globular clusters. These anomalies have been known for a long time (see this). One however expects that the stars of the cluster should have the same origin and age in the early universe.
   3. Also supermassive stars (see this), having masses of few hundred solar masses, have been found in globular clusters (see this). Also multiple globular clusters have been found.

TGD explanation of the paradoxical findings of the James Webb telescope

What goes wrong with the standard cosmology? Could TGD inspired cosmology suggest an answer.

1. TGD suggests that the prevailing view about the notion of time is wrong. TGD forces a new ontology of quantum theory, which I call zero energy ontology (ZEO) (see this). In this ontology subjective time and geometric time are not the same thing but are strongly correlated. This new ontology solves the basic paradox of quantum measurement theory. ZEO also leads to the prediction that in ordinary state function reductions (SFRs) the arrow of time changes. In SFRs corresponding to repeated measurement of the same observables (weak measurements in quantum optics), giving rise to the Zeno effect in the standard quantum measurement theory, the state changes slightly but the arrow of time is preserved.
2. TGD also predicts quantum coherence in arbitrarily long scales and gravitational quantum coherence corresponds to the longest, even astrophysical, quantum coherence scales because it has infinite range and is unscreened (see this).
3. The change of arrow of time implies dramatic effects even in astrophysical scales. In particular, even astrophysical objects can live forth and back in geometric time. What this means is that the quantization volume characterizing a given quantum state and identified as causal diamond (intersection of future and past directed light-cone) increases in size. For a given arrow of time the passive boundary of CD remains stationary but the active boundary shifts to the direction of time determined by the arrow.

During this process the physical system ages. Although the size of CDs increases in statistical sense, the ageing occurs in both directions of time so that the age is total time spent in this forth and back in time process. Hence ageing in ZEO is faster than ageing in the standard ontology. Consider now the anomalies.

1. ZEO explains stars and galaxies older than the Universe.
2. ZEO also predicts the variation of the ages of galaxies and stars in the very early Universe. Since galaxies and stars can be born at different periods in this life forth and back in geometric time, they can have different ages in the sense of ZEO. This explains why the abundances of atoms associated with the stars of star clusters are found to vary. The life forth and back in time also explains the appearance of globular star clusters, which are very old and are not possible in standard cosmology.

What about PAHs which appear in the regions where star formation does not occur and do not appear in the region containing stars.

1. The TGD view of nuclear physics, originally inspired by the findings about “cold fusion”, and based on the notion of dark nuclei, identified scaled up analogs of ordinary nuclei, leads to a model of prestellar evolution based on dark fusion (explaining also “cold fusion”). “Dark” means that the nucleons of these nuclei have non-standard values of Planck constant h_eff=nh₀.
2. Dark fusion generates dark nuclei as sequences of dark protons at monopole flux tubes having size scale of electron Compton length. Their binding energy is much smaller than the binding energy of the ordinary nuclei. Dark nuclei can therefore transform to ordinary nuclei and liberate most of the nuclear binding energy in the process (see this and this)). Therefore the temperature of the dark fusion region increases and eventually reaches the temperature at which ordinary nuclear fusion can start. Even chemistry and complex molecules can emerge before the ordinary nuclear fusion is ignited. This could explain the presence of PAHs, in particular their presence in regions where there is no star formation or stars.
3. Why signals from the period preceding the reionization are possible? One reason is that there was a reionization. TGD also allows us to consider the possibility that the signals arrive as dark photons along monopole flux tubes of a cosmic flux tube network acting as an analog of the nervous system. Also in the TGD based model of the brain dark photon signals propagating between the central nervous system and magnetic body play a key role.

I have considered the findings of James Webb telescope from the TGD point of view here. The TGD view of cosmology and astrophysics is discussed in various articles (see this, this, this, this, and this).

For a summary of earlier postings see Latest progress in TGD.