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Gentleman-Tech t1_j79qkgm wrote

Reply to comment by SnooStories1286 in Serious question by Unable_Region7300

I like the "tired light" theory too, which postulates that light loses energy as it travels, so old light from faraway objects appear to be red-shifted to us.

It's not a mainstream theory and is unsupported by experimental data, but as an alternative explanation of the observed reality it has an elegance that I like.

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SnooStories1286 t1_j7aa822 wrote

Tired Light, Variable Speed of Light, and Steady State are all theories that I personally believe got thrown out too quickly. Some because YEC hijacked them to try to justify a 6 thousand year old Earth, making it career suicide to investigate as a serious researcher.

James Webb is hopefully going to make big changes. I find it notable that very few of its observations are being published soon after they are made. They are finding fully formed galaxies way too early, and having a hard time explaining it (dark matter is always there to rescue the BBT though).

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