Will the age of the universe be twice its age?

the University of Ottawa Report on research that could revolutionize cosmology. The study, named after Assistant Professor of Astrophysics Rajendra Gupta, which was MNRAS Published in a specialized journal, it completely revisits the origin of galaxies and the physical processes involved.

what is he talking about? The age of the universe was calculated using the redshift of very distant galaxies. the so-called lambda-CDM Based on a model, a few years ago, using this method, it was found to be 13.797 billion years old, which is the generally accepted age today. However, there is one Methuselah Nicknamed Star (officially HD 140283), found just 190 light-years from Earth, whose age was first estimated to be older than the universe, more than 14 billion years old. This was an apparent contradiction – the later date gave the star’s age as only 12 billion years. In addition, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered galaxies that existed only 300 million years after the Big Bang. These galaxies seem so huge and so mature that, according to our current theories, billions of years of evolution are required, while their size is small. Therefore, there are some strange observations for which we cannot yet give a complete and comprehensive explanation, as the Canadian researcher tried.

Gupta found an alternative explanation for the redshift. Instead of being just a sign of the expansion of the universe, according to the researcher in Ottawa, it is a hybrid phenomenon with a complex origin. In 1929, Fritz Zwicky hypothesized that redshift was caused by “light stress”. In English: Photons from distant objects appear redder because they lose energy during the long journey, for example during collisions with other particles. Gupta believes that if you combine this theory, which has been rejected and contradicts observations, with the accepted theory of the redshift caused by the expansion of the universe, some physical processes can be explained more accurately. To this he added the theory of Nobel laureate Paul Dirac in 1937, in which he also stated that individual physical constants can change and evolve when viewed on the time scale of the universe, thanks to the fact that the interaction of particles ages. From the universe can be related. these Attached constantshe is called

According to Gupta, if we give physical constants a chance to evolve, the high redshift galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could be much older, i.e. not just a few hundred million years (after the Big Bang), but billions of years. This would explain how galaxies that are considered young can have ancient galactic mass and evolution.

Gupta also proposed a revision of the cosmological constant (which represents the dark energy responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe). It instead proposes the introduction of a new constant that would describe the evolution of paired constants and help explain the contrasting properties of the observed early galaxies.

Why should Gupta theory be treated with reservations? Primarily because it would include ideas that had previously been rejected by science. His claim (of course, this does not mean that it cannot be true) that our world is twice as old as the accepted age currently supported by so many theories that have been substantiated in so many branches is also very dangerous. Although he has published many of his research findings on the subject in recent years, he has almost without exception recorded them alone (no other researchers with him). This may also indicate that he is professionally isolated and has no supporters for his far-fetched theories. It is a fact that the most important research of our time is being conducted by large teams, and this, of course, does not exclude that the “lone wolf” can sometimes be right. In any case, there are several reasons to treat the idea as a scientific curiosity rather than as something radically new.