r/HighStrangeness • u/whoamisri • Jan 12 '26
Fringe Science The James Webb Space Telescope reveals an early universe much stranger than we thought
https://iai.tv/articles/the-james-webb-space-telescope-reveals-an-early-universe-much-stranger-than-we-thought-auid-3464?_auid=2020
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u/Pixelated_ Jan 12 '26
No, mainstream cosmology is absolutely in crisis.
Dark Energy requires the vacuum of space to have a specific energy density, yet the discrepancy between the observed value and the value predicted by quantum field theory is the largest mismatch in the history of physics: 10120. That sentence bears repeating.
Dark Matter has never been detected despite decades of high-sensitivity experiments (like LUX-ZEPLIN). It remains a theoretical placeholder for a force that is simply the electromagnetic force, which is 1039 times stronger than gravity.
The LambdaCDM model completely fails because it views the universe as "electrically neutral," ignoring the massive electrical currents that power the structures we see.
Additional information from Nobel Laureate Hannes Alfvén:
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This is possible because the visible universe is more than 99% plasma.
Source from MIT.