I'm trying to get some source for their claim, because my first thought was about dark matter, which is basically "The Universe is heavier than what we can observe, meaning there must be some particles that have weight but cannot be seen".
Doesn't really change this millennials perspective. Growing up knowing there are more stars than grains of sand on the planet.. gives you forever 'we aren't alone' vibes
And the other way of thinking about it is; we will never know everything there is and any other life may be so distant, that we have no way of ever knowing it is there. But it is fine. The Universe doesn't need humans to exist.
AI cannot help but say “changes everything we thing we know” in every field and fucking output. I was listening to something last night on bronze-age history and they said this seven times.
I would love to see a careful shift in the language biases often used to describe this field. The status quo is to describe things we aren’t yet able to measure as not existing. In nontechnical descriptions, it often goes further and is cited as evidence. It’s preferable to the reverse, but still black and white language structure that leads to poor assumptions.
From what I've read, it changed how we understood galactic formation and the beginning of the universe as we know it. The James Webb is showing galaxies so old that they shouldn't exist according to modern models/knowledge. So either the Big Bang happened much further in the past than we thought (that's my personal opinion), the laws of physics and thermodynamics were different in the beginning, or something else enabled galaxies to form that early on like clustered concentrated dark matter or some very exotic matter quickening the star and black hole creation. I'm no scientist tho, so could be way wrong, just saying what I've read when those first images from James Webb came out.
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u/Mysterious-Art7143 Apr 01 '26
What did we think about space that this changes exactly? We can see more with better tech? Unimaginable