Brian Cox - What Can The James Webb Space Telescope Tell Us About The Universe?

Brian Cox - What Can The James Webb Space Telescope Tell Us About The Universe?
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Brian Cox talks the James Webb Space Telescope and it's importance for our understanding of the Universe.
Throughout history, people have gazed up at the night sky and wondered about our place in the universe. What else is out there? How did it all begin? Are there other planets like Earth? Well the new revolutionary telescope called the James Webb Space Telescope that was successfully deployed into space could answer a lot of these questions. Scientists like Brian Cox are excited because this gigantic instrument could solve many mysteries of our Universe.
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[@AlexisLopez-pb8ms]

The voice of Brian Cox is so subdued but I can’t stop listening to him. This guy is a genius and really captivates my attention.

[@hannahmillington5781]

So refreshing to hear a scientist to say "We don't know" rather some arrogant posturing like humans have all the answers. Having an open mind is a gift.

[@cosmicsprings8690]

He’s still a smug twat with a giant ego ..🤔🤣😂🤣✨

[@1boobtube]

@S Gloval You can directly observe composition of stars and stellar gasses. The mechanisms of stars creating elements have been fairly well understood for decades.

[@1boobtube]

@S Gloval Yes. Note also that this is one of the things JWST was designed to do.

[@robertspence7766]

Scientists and researchers frequently say "I don't know" and that is the exact reason for their research. Lay people conflate confidence in what is thoroughly understood with arrogance. I teach nuclear physics at a research reactor. When I am in public discussions on social media I am continuously told I do not know what I am talking about by people who do not understand even basic concepts. When I attempt to share what we do know to expand on their understanding, I am accused of being arrogant simply because the people who argue either are not equipped to understand some concepts or alternately refuse to learn. It is frustrating. I am confident in my area of expertise while at the same time continuously evaluating my gaps in knowledge and seeking answers to further my knowledge.

[@robertspence7766]

@S GlovalI work at a research facility. I do not understand what you are implying. I don't know simply means we have insufficient evidence to draw a conclusion or the question is outside of my area of expertise and I need to ask a subject matter expert for assistance or look for information myself. It is really that simple. I do not care if the answer to a question changes my paradigm.

[@rossmcleod7983]

The JWST is humanity as it’s finest.

[@poonoi1968]

Couldn't agree more. So exited about JWST and it's possibilities that I too often forget that many people might actually have different interests. Big fan of Brian Cox too. He seems to so effortlessly be able teach his field in a way that makes it absolutely captivating to be learning every time. Can hardly think of anyone really that can quite match his plesant personality and compelling knowledge.

[@robertgower8913]

This is a great video. I recently built a 1:7.5 scale model of Webb's primary and secondary mirror for my middle school classroom. They are so excited to see what it will discover. I can't wait to show them this video. Well done!

[@onthetrail3457]

Nothing moves faster than the speed of light. Except the Expansion of the Universe which is accelerating faster than the speed of light. Because of this Fact, Some Light will never reach the James Webb Space Telescope. It's the Universe Event Horizon. Kind of like a Black Hole Event Horizon. Is Webb capable of seeing the Universe Event Horizon?

[@CosmicShieldMaiden]

Cool !

[@anthonybinnie84]

These videos with Brian Cox are absolute brilliant

[@michaelbariso3192]

Testing the speed light in on Earth is like riding a bicycle up hill, gravity will show you down. The biggest threat to humanity is human stupidity. If the light waves from the sun were 8 minutes and 20 seconds in a past dimension of Einstein's space-time then people on Earth are just imagining the infrared warmth of the sun coming up on the horizon. The communications delay between Earth and Mars is approximately 20 minutes. We're either viewing the light from Mars in the future, Einstein's past dimensions of space-time or in real time, which do you think is more logical? Einstein's relativity is wrong light has no limitation of speed; it cannot be slowed down because it isn't moving. From every vantage point in the universe light is omnidirectional-instantaneously traveling in both directions. Light and electromagnetic waves are independent of each other. According to Einstein's relativity-time dilation's, photos taken of the Earth from the Discovery Space station traveled from the past to the future violating the laws of physics, conservation of energy and common sense. According to Einstein's projectile light particle proton light has a (constant speed) of 186,000 miles per second moving through spacetime, but if light has a (constant speed) then moving clocks cannot run slow through spacetime! :-) The speed of light according to Einstein's relativity is 186,000 miles per second, but according to physics if two mechanical watches were synchronized on earth and one traveled across the universe and back, there would be no difference in time between the mechanical watches proving the speed of light is instantaneous as the only way a mechanical watch will run slow is if you tighten the main spring. Big Bang, Einstein's relativity-time dilation and nearly all of science debunked. Using optical clocks, lasers and GPS to prove Einstein's time dilation-space-time curvature is like using a metal detector to find gold at Fort Knox. The closer you are to the electromagnetic fields, mass and gravity of the earth the more light bends aka gravitational lensing. If the speed of light is constant then past and future dimensions of spacetime and an expanding universe would not be possible, obviously destroying the twins paradox as each twin cannot move faster or slower than the other. A mirror is a wave reflector that flips images from left to right, but according to Einstein the images you see are the result of projectile light particle photons being transported into past and future dimensions of space-time. Explain how particle light photons can re-converge their molecular structures in mirrors and how this is done without violating the law of conservation of energy. From every vantage point in the universe light is omnidirectional-instantaneously traveling in all directions (forwards and backwards through Einstein's space-time) while violating the law of conservation of energy. Explain how Einstein's projectile light particle proton can travel all directions having a (constant speed) of 186,000 miles per second. Einstein would have made a great used car salesman :-). Light waves can stretch, bend-curve and occupy a state of superposition, whereas the hypothetical Einstein projectile light particle (photon), a particle that has never been observed cannot. Unlike a TV or computer monitor the images we are viewing in the universe are in real time, not a series of frames that create the appearance of a moving image. There are no DCU digital convergence circuits in space yet Einstein's disciples believe the light and moving images they see in the universe aren't really there, they're just video recorded images of the past 13.8 billion years. You could lead a cult to water, but you can't make them think. Neither time, energy nor mass can create itself into nothing, reside in nothing or expand into nothing simply because nothing has no properties. Time and space are independent of each other, not material bodies or fantasy unions that magically stretch Time, energy, and matter like a rubber band into space-time dimensions. Einstein's projectile light particle proton has a (constant speed) of 186,000 miles per second moving through spacetime and because so wavelengths of light cannot stretch through spacetime! Red-shifts are simply the result of decelerating electrons, as moving electrons of charged electromagnetic waves-light travel through the plasma of the universe each lump (or "quanta") of energy in the electromagnetic waves are charged then discharged to the next lump, eventually the energy dissipates causing the delay in radio communications giving the appearance of time dilation - longer wavelengths in red shift. Will the James Webb Telescope view the birth of the first galaxies? Nope, the universe goes on to infinity. Neither time, the atom, energy nor mass can create itself into nothing, reside in nothing or expand into nothing simply because nothing has no properties. The James Webb Space Telescope is not a time machine, you can’t travel back in time to view the beginning of the universe with telescopes that were made in the future :-). Light and electromagnetic waves are independent of each other. If science uses Einstein's wrongly theorized speed of light like an odometer to calculate past dimensions of distance and time, then using that same method to calculate forward dimensions of distance and time would mean the Big Bang was created and expanded in the future before time existed. Unlike a television or computer monitor the images we are viewing in the universe are in real time, not a series of still image frames that hypothetical Einstein projectile light particles photons create to give us the appearance of a moving image :-). The speed of electromagnetic wave is 186,282 miles per second vs Einstein's projectile light particle proton at 186,000 miles per second. Is this a coincidence or did Einstein plagiarize yet another phenomenon to fit the math of relativity? Electromagnetic waves in space can neither slow down or speed up, this is consistent with the law of conservation of energy. If light slowed down, its energy would decrease, thereby violating the law of conservation of energy so the speed of light is instantaneous and cannot travel slower than it does. If Einstein's projectile light (particle photon) had mass it's light could not travel across the universe, high speed particles traveling at 186,000 miles per second would break the Hubble and James Webb telescope mirrors, debunking the speed of light, Big Bang, Einstein's relativity and any science that uses relativity in their theories. Similar to a mirror light is a real-time wave reflector where light and images travel in straight lines-in all directions in space as they do on earth. The faintest stars and galaxies are neither in a past or future dimension of Einstein's space-time, they're in real-time. Everyone knows cell phone electromagnetic radio waves travel both ways, yet Einstein's disciples believe time energy, mass and light can only travel one way back in time. If you simply run the Big Bang theory in reverse you reveal the insanity of Einstein's relativity and Big Bang theory. If the expansion of the Big Bang were true, time, energy, mass and light would be in the future from the vantage point of an expanding singularity-Big Bang and planet Earth would now reside in a past dimension of Einstein's time dilation (moving clocks run slow) space-time 13.8 billion years ago :-). From every vantage point in the universe light is omnidirectional-instantaneously traveling in both directions (forwards and backwards through Einstein's space-time) while violating the law of conservation of energy. Explain how Einstein's projectile light particle proton can travel in both directions having a (constant speed) of 186,000 miles per second :-) It's truly amazing how the science and politics of the left are able to keep people denying reality, there are no DCU digital convergence circuits in space, yet Einstein's disciples believe the light and moving images they see in the universe aren't really there, they're just recorded images of the past 13.8 billion years. Pretending not to notice the gross contradictions-pseudoscience in Relativity is typical of Einstein's disciples, devaluing the source of any information that's in contradiction with their beliefs-theories. You could lead a cult to water, but you can't make them think. If the light from the universe travels to past dimensions of time then it's light is also traveling into future dimensions of time (instantaneously). “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” a state of superposition where time and gravity run inwardly, outwardly, in all directions in the same time frame, similar to the electromagnetic field having no beginning and no end. The Doppler effect is wrongly conflated with cosmological Redshift. As one approaches a blowing horn the perceived pitch is higher until the horn is reached, then becomes lower as the horn is passed. This phenomenon is caused by the physical movement of a mechanical soundwave traveling through the medium of air, similar to throwing a rock in a pond, the rock creates physical movement in the medium of water. Cosmological Redshifts are merely the GoPro fisheye effect where wavelengths appear to lengthen-stretch from the phenomenon of gravitational lensing. "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End" Revelation 22:13 Magnetron

[@charlie_d2717]

The whole world needs to watch this..Thank you Professor Cox and and Team. LEGENDS! ❤️

[@Revivessentials]

Kudos Mr. Cox

[@TshaajThomas]

No shit

[@thatswhatithought6519]

Unfortunately the world is more into shaking their asses in tiktok

[@TshaajThomas]

@@thatswhatithought6519 Unfortunately Professor Cox and his mechanical friend James Web aren't going to produce anything valuable for us, that's why we should stick around tiktok.

[@classicalphysic]

Legends only until the upcoming JWT Deep field contradict the early universe predictions made by BBT. It will be interesting to see how Cox et al explain how their predictions that JWST deep field will have no metal rich galaxies due to the BBT. When in fact all that is observed at the very limits of JWST will be...mature Metal rich galaxies!!

[@ILLiteSociety]

Awesome video! Can't wait to see the first pictures. As much as I hate summer....June needs to hurry up!

[@nysockexchange2204]

Thank you. You've answered many of my big picture questions that previous docs have failed to satisfactorily address.

[@radu1111]

This mini doc was amazing!!! Well done team Science Time.

[@davidayres7973]

I love listening to Prof Brian Cox. His voice js so relaxing.

[@philochristos]

I hope they take another pictures of the Hubble deep field. It'll be interesting to compare them.

[@Robin-Visser]

No they will take one of the JWST deep field

[@goldesd90]

They will for sure

[@chadroberts6344]

Webb can't take that type picture. Webb is an infrared observation telescope

[@godagon97]

@@chadroberts6344 They can adjust the data to represent a visual field.

[@nicolelynn2251]

@@chadroberts6344 you think a 10 billion dollar telescope can’t take a regular pic 😂😂😂

[@mohannadjaradat4024]

Thank you mr. cox. that was a mind blowing speech. It was hard at first, but then I was like OH!

[@ronaldronald8819]

So exciting! I am so curious what JWST is gone discover. Cosmology is in its golden age and we can all join in to watch. Absolutely fantastic. Thank you all at Science Time!

[@GrubblandeGrapplern]

Yes. Cosmology is one of the very few things that you can get excited about these days.

[@nathonhamilton4524]

Well done Dr Brian...i love all your talks facinating thankyou.

[@andrewbeasley6003]

Webb, is going to be, mind blowing. I could listen to Professor Brian Cox, all day and never get bored

[@josephishkabibble5863]

My boy Brian!!!! Where ya been all these years bro?!!!!! Coolest professor!!!!

[@doublemoonchild]

Your videos are so clear & concise.. easy to understand. Informative and entertaining. Thank You.

[@ScienceTime24]

Thanks a lot for watching :)

[@healdiseasenow]

My favorite professor. Brian Cox! 😁

[@glentorn5362]

Cosmology is at the threshold of a grand awakening. Very exciting indeed!

[@shaunl446]

We are very fortunate to live during this time in regards to astronomy.

[@stanislavstoimenov1729]

We're very fortunate to live in this time, period. Especially if one lives in the First world, like the two of us.

[@davidthomas9190]

@@stanislavstoimenov1729 I disagree. In the coming years we will come to see what heinous crimes have been committed against humanity in the name of a pandemic.

[@shaunl446]

@@davidthomas9190 I said in regards to astronomy. You had to twist it and make it ugly. Take your misery somewhere else.

[@davidthomas9190]

@@shaunl446 and I wasn't replying to you at all. Pay attention !

[@shaunl446]

@@davidthomas9190 My bad David! After further review I actually agree with you. I'm 41 and didn't realize what I was reading. Good luck!

[@joshtherahrah]

Brian Cox is one of my favourite humans. I love listening to him.

[@mariocastro7379]

Thank you! Really need videos like this during these times!

[@cstew8355]

Whys that's so.you can disappear into science fiction and no cope with reality thinking one day you will go really fast in a rocket to somewhere different!!! Sorry bro not gonna happen and people like to deceive

[@susmarcon]

@@cstew8355 I think in "Cosmos" they referred to the "spaceship of the imagination" to give people a sense of what it could be like. But I guess that's just for those with an actual imagination and who aren't dead inside.

[@maureensolverson2503]

Nicely done, you do a great job of communication that really helps a novice get the picture. Your humility comes through and that’s what is needed more theses days. Too may people in academia and other fields are full of themselves.

[@AntoZeus]

Thank-you for this. 💚🇮🇪💚

[@jeffj2495]

Very nice vid. Thanks for posting.

[@nadiyahasanah2278]

I see Prof. Brian Cox I get to watch it

[@solarheat9016]

Those 3D renders: wow!

[@Imran-kr1wl]

Professor Cox always best to explain

[@joegeorge3889]

Can't wait to see some photos

[@ka4sxi]

Professor Cox speaks of our world's formation by speaking about learning about the beginning the further out we are able to explore. He said that the further away from Earth the less carbon is found. Wouldn't that make us the center of the universe that everything is drawn to? Did time start from one direction and is heading in another? Did the Big Bang send particles in all (360 degrees) directions? How far do you need to go in the other direction to find similar findings to here? His videos are so interesting. I still can't fathom how the scientists are able to prove many of their theories.

[@mosaicmonk4380]

i been waiting on this Nicca to talk that real space ish.

[@st1ffee]

im very excited to see what it discovers,fascinating

[@iliasmess]

Really great video, so visually appealing about one of the most intriguing subjects of tomorrow. So hyped now, this channel is doing god's work ✌️

[@kellydalstok8900]

Which of the thousands of gods? Why that one, because you were indoctrinated to believe in it? What is your evidence your god exists. As there is none, why do you still believe?

[@psihostrumpf6233]

We should behave differently in any case. Whether we are the only civilization in Universe or just one of billions, which is equally amazing. And we should start with teaching astronomy to our kids from early childhood, instead of ancient fairy tales from deserts...

[@loganx833]

💯

[@woodswalter]

Well said. I know that is what I do with my kids.

[@andymouse]

Great explanation...cheers.

[@eccehomer8182]

Brian Cox: "In the very far future there will be no structures left." Also Brian Cox: "Thing's... can only get better!"

[@farihawasti4771]

Thank you for the video! What are some suggested "ways" that you think we may or may not behave based on finding life or signs of life on other planets?

[@eliasmora715]

its amazing the knowledge of space....impressive

[@martindaledinard6015]

Merci beaucoup

[@drmontague6475]

The universe is bigger than we thought!

[@kingboagart899]

Who is "we"?

[@bernieflanders8822]

I've read all of professor Cox's books many times over and they are still as brilliant as the 1st time I read them. My favourite is "the quantum universe". He describes the quantum world in the most conceivable way that I've read and hilariously debunks all of the new age voodoo, woo woo nonsense that gets spilled all over the place using irrefutable evidence and facts.

[@davidsheckler8417]

🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

[@freedomfirst5557]

Facts and proof today are sadly NOT a requirement for almost half of the population. Whatever people want to believe, whatever enforces their beliefs.....that is their truth.

[@jamescaley9942]

If anything sounds like "voodoo" and mysticism it is quantum mechanics.

[@doc-holliday-]

Lol look at all the nut jobs hurt feelings. Thats how you know he did something right in his books.

[@davidsheckler8417]

@@doc-holliday- AHAHAHAHA...it's lovely seeing Mr. Tinfoil Hat defending cartoons with such passion...never had a thought of your own have you

[@arnbirni]

Very good and interesting video, thank Greetings from Iceland

[@umami0247]

Hopefully this answers some questions about the universe I've had for some time. I won't list them it's a long list. I do believe the universe is older than what we think by a fair amount. Will it be able to go back to the beginning probably not but maybe close enough for new physics. That is another area that I believe we haven't come close to understanding how things work we are just in the first quarter of what I believe is yet to be learned. Will we be around long enough to get these answers we can only hope history isn't on our side as far as that's is concerned time will tell!! Great stuff love the channel.

[@tmarti69]

3d print a fusion reactor. Currently superconductor coils are reaching 26T Teslas in Rebco like ribbons 30 Tesla, 40 Tesla may happen in a few years. That also means smaller reactors tinny, and even micro reactors are conceivable. This was so successful why not just heat the superconductor ceramic and ink jet it into sintered powdered metal 3d printing process. Just over sinter and inkjet the ceramic in place. This could be done in any powdered metal method, like Inconel, Aluminum similar melting point, or even Titanium with added option of gold done at same time for internal wiring. This could be used for deuterium tritium with boron chambers in the blanket that create electricity. Another option is Helium Three He3 it only produces protons that also makes electricity directly. Without the damaging neutrons a He3 reactor could be as small as 30 centimeters, studied on the desk in a full classroom at MIT University. . Space X first priority could bring back Helium Three from the moon without even mining it. The shallow intermittent atmosphere of the moon could carry water full of it to hydro gel. Moon Landers right now are using hydro gel as a vacuum desiccant to protect delicate instrumentation. Sorry for altering so liberally existing tech, but we could get to fusion with thousand dollar reactors instead of billions. Possibly even get to He3 fusion faster because it would be so much safer and smaller to do.

[@Colmleft]

The possibility that freewill enables leaps beyond time is within entropy’s unthought memory. From a higher dimension this universe reflects everything happening, everywhere all at once all the time with definitive clarity. My preference for free will over an implacable fate refutes the limits prescribed by destiny. Denying the end doesn’t prevent the future but it might avert it enough to alter eternity.

[@bensellars3667]

If we have to look in a certain direction to find the Big Bang, what happens if we focus Web the same distance on the opposite direction?

[@HiyaEverybody.]

So we truly are made of stars, far out ✨🌟❤️

[@philcoombes2538]

& the remnants of at least one star that has gone nova to boot...

[@KingAshton22]

I love watching these videos when I’m high it makes space so more interesting also this guy

[@Jm649]

Space just doesn't seem real sometimes.. And yet it's all above us. We live in it.. Crazy stuff.

[@ZeDlinG67]

it's cool to watch this after it has been deployed and all is well :)

[@ExplainedThroughRap]

This is brilliantly made! We dropped a rap explaining the James Webb Space Telescope 🔥🔥🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀🚀

[@al4385]

I keep hearing about looking at the furthest objects, but what about the closer ones that were previously blurry? Can we get some good close up shots for science as well?

[@FlyWithMe_666]

1:35 The guy tinder-swiping during his reactor work though - match > nuclear disaster.

[@billkingston4402]

Things will only get clearer

[@Poronekton]

Most of this audio taken from Brian's speech at the University of Cambridge you all should go check it out!

[@Poronekton]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJakfnqEa551a80

[@StevieObieYT]

Exciting stuff... 😏 👩🏻‍🚀 👨🏻‍🚀

[@ayushaggarwal4714]

scientists are so cool.

[@madmadgeoffers3982]

i have a question, so if light is the measure of time when looking at stars and we are seeing things that happened millennia ago (basically looking into the past) does each camera that is larger than the last, if they were all to look at the same star, would they each be looking at a different time or the same time?

[@Usnthemtoo]

Same time since they are seeing the same light from the same star. The bigger scope can simply see farther out, hence farther back. (I'm positive that this might be true...)

[@madmadgeoffers3982]

@@Usnthemtoo so would it work out differently, or we would be viewing the same time even if the most powerful telescope caught the first ray of light of say a brand new star/supernova, would a smaller telescope receive that light at the same time or would there be a time difference? is light a constant or does the observation of wave and particle make a difference on the calculations and its relativity to the time passed ( trying to settle a discussion between friends) Thank you for taking the time to reply to my previous question.

[@ponderoosas5484]

If you are looking at the same star they will ALWAYS see the same, the light particles are still same. Its just with a larger telescope you can see further away.

[@1boobtube]

@@madmadgeoffers3982 All light travels the same speed in a vacuum. That includes rf microwave infrared visible uv xray gamma. Ignoring inflation relativity etc. figure you're looking back in time about a billionth of a second for each foot away in distance. JWST looking in infrared is fairly large for a space telescope seeing dim objects and far away, therefore, red shifted objects. Infrared also allows it to see better thru interstellar dust. Note technically you can simultaneously "see" the same object at two slightly different points in time. One form is called multipath distortion and it's pretty annoying.

[@madmadgeoffers3982]

@@1boobtube Thank you

[@jeremyjohnson121]

Im happy that this telescope was finishing, depend my suggestion. Thanks for NASA team of ingeneers for assambly wide spectrum telescope for research aliens truck in the deep space. nI hope so this telescope will make answer for many cover questions, what was it and will rise.

[@scott-qk8sm]

It always amazes me the billions of chance events that had to occur in the past in order for us to be here now; winning a lottery several times is easier by comparison

[@adamstevens5518]

The part I like most is being able to look at worlds in habital zones. The part I like least is being able to look further back in time. The former is potentially practically applicable in the next few hundred years or so, the latter we already have good theories and hypotheses for and I don’t think we’ll learn much if anything new other than the particulars for our specific observable universe.

[@Elkhorse]

When looking for the beginning how do you know you're looking in the right direction or is the beginning in all directions? And when you find the beginning does that loop around to where you started?

[@prabhatmohansingh9252]

Every direction is same thing

[@loganx833]

That's not how it works

[@Elkhorse]

@@loganx833 so how does it work?

[@kronkite1530]

@@Elkhorse see some of the relevant videos by the excellent Fermilab KZbin channel.

[@kingboagart899]

Don't know where the beginning is, but it all ends with shots of quervo at Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo. As long as we know that then nothing else makes any difference.

[@sciencelover9490]

Hello, there is an 18-year-old child who loves science and he told me I want to discover the secrets of the universe for all of humanity, but unfortunately he is poor and needs to study. He told me I want to discover the secrets of the universe for humanity like Einstein and Newton

[@loganx833]

Nice child💛

[@sciencelover9490]

@@loganx833 .He said, "I want to discover the secrets of the universe for all mankind, such as Einstein and Newton."

[@Colmleft]

The “Great Silence” reference made at the end is paraphrased suggesting “a profound message of cosmology and biology together, that by being alone we’d do well to recognize ourselves as posing the greatest existential threat”. This places our chances on the frontier of the future as both slim and stark. Also if reality is predetermined, worrying about it is pointless. Where’s the point to be made for time itself except through awareness? It’s foolhardy to suggest that time exists simply because of an awareness to it. It is less so is to think of time as a phenomenal resource. Our sense of time may evolve as an infrared ability just as our ancestors evolved from the sea? Might AI have already achieved this using the newly launched optics of the JWDST? Answers seem ominous and imminent as intelligence outpaces wisdom. Will we be considered irrelevant at some point as before? John Lockes postulated “If a tree falls in the woods does it make a sound.” Was the Great Silence any less turbulent because of our inability to witness it? To answer John Lockes question, all things we know being equal, it goes boom. But if we haven’t begun to master the mysteries of quantum physics, if such events before the Big Bang haven’t even been properly theorized, then surely given the unknown parameters of as yet incomprehensible dimensions, perhaps some cycle occurred before or during the great silence that may again replicate indefinitely or in infinite variations.

[@Stegibbon]

As always, Brain making me believe that things can only get better and once again making me D:Ream!

[@rockbore]

The hot side of the jwst is 125°C. That's pretty damn hot, isn't it? How did Apollo's crew survive 8 days in that heat? Explanations have been offered that are bizarre, sometimes forgetting that molecules can be found in space vessels and in astronauts. Maybe the jwst will unlock the secrets of Apollo, as well as the universe. Thanks for all your awesome genius insights, Brain Cox.

[@solareclipse1970]

Apollo spacecraft utilized "barbecue mode". BBQ mode won't work for a telescope for obvious reasons.

[@jeffoh5787]

It makes me giggle when I'm eating goldfish crackers on the toilet while drunk and accidentally drop one in the toilet.

[@phenomenon8]

Something tells me Earth 🌍 is unique and we are NOT alone 👽. I found a great book that explains this called 'Phenomenon' (Amazon) 'The Greatest Adventure Ever Experienced' although we cannot go into Interstellar Space physically yet we can go spiritually using our Soul 🌈🎱

[@ArKritz84]

Especially if you take DMT and wear a tinfoil hat when you go.

[@kingboagart899]

New age out of body transcendental hoo hoo shit ain't cuttin' it on a scientific level sweetheart, but I used to do some blotter in the woods that I swore at the time made me lighter than air.

[@davemcevoy6781]

I really like the narrator. Any idea who it is?

[@georgepalmer5497]

I wonder if we will ever get to the point where we can create our own very small stars using nuclear fusion in space. It could give us a lot of usable energy, among other things.

[@susmarcon]

It's being done...more or less....kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZovGgmSHar91q6c

[@drummerdad80]

@@susmarcon except sapphire is not nuclear fusion, it's how space really works,👍 for knowing about though...

[@majica26]

I actually had one of my 5th graders pose this exact same question (about the possibility of creating our own stars in time to harness their energy). Brilliant.

[@georgepalmer5497]

Keep on keep in' on! The kids need you.

[@jeremyjohnson121]

Jemes Webb telescope isnt my thoughts, but Im happy for help for realization of this plan.

[@solareagle7281]

The problem I see with this is that we are looking back in time and we can't actually view any distant worlds that are in the same time as us, I mean if a distant world was looking across space at the earth as it was billions of years ago, what would they see?....nothing that resembled what is true today...We will probably never know what life in this universe is like until we achieve faster than light travel...then we might find life and civilizations that lasted for millions of years at various times throughout the universe that came and went for various reasons....that would be my guess anyway....we still have a long way to go

[@abebehailemariam6186]

i agree with you, what is the use if we can not look to nearby, within our reach .

[@bhamacuk]

What is fascinating about human beings and our evolution, is that not only were we created from star matter but we developed an ability to think and feel. An intelligence if you will. ( Which sadly some humans squander)

[@elvis7435]

i have a question....by exploring with telescopes we can only see a certain part in time depending on the strength of the telescope.....does this mean changing magnification allows you to replay and fast forward events?

[@esbenskovrasmussen9066]

Not exactly. If you look at something a billion light years away you are looking a billion years back in time. But looking at it the time change is then depending on time passing and the moving of what you look at (most things moves away do to the expanding universe that is why they red shift and why the James web telescope is looking in infrared) but both of this time changes are almost irrelevant for the scales we are talking about. But if you can find a star 5 billions light years away you are looking 5 billions year back in time at that star, you can then try to find a similar star 4,5 billions light years away and then closer and closer whit different stars and then get an understanding of the chance over time.

[@RikJSmith]

@@esbenskovrasmussen9066 Very well explained Esben. I didn't understand that concept at all but now I think I've got it. Thank you and stay safe. 🎸

[@TheUltimateSeeds]

One of the commentators stated: *"...We don't have all the answers, so we don't know where the laws of nature came from..."* And that, my friends, is why you should never let any of these slick presentations lure you into believing that the physicists (materialists) have any clue as to how the unthinkable order of the universe came about.

[@loganx833]

So?

[@drummerdad80]

Big bang is crap, and they twist everything to make it work, they are stuck in there box and won't let it go

[@chrismathis4162]

As opposed to religious people who make up an answer? Just because we don’t have an answer now doesn’t mean you get to make up an answer. LOL. If I could time travel to the first civilizations, they would tell me that the sun and stars move across they sky because angels push them. They were doing what you are doing now, making up an answer to explain something they don’t understand. Every mystery that has been eventually solved by science has turned out not to be magic.

[@TheUltimateSeeds]

​@@chrismathis4162 It is utterly ridiculous to believe that billions of years ago, the blind and mindless processes of gravity and thermodynamics... _(without any way of consciously knowing what they were creating)_ ...could have reached into the random and chaotically dispersed *quantum gibberish* that emerged from a Big Bang beginning of the universe, and then somehow caused that gibberish to magically arrange itself into highly correlated patterns of information that underpin the construction of the near infinite array of unique and individuated ingredients that went into creating the mind-blowing order of the universe. I mean, how in the world could anyone believe that the unguided meanderings of *"chance and serendipity"* not only managed to create this remarkably stable orb we are standing on (again, out of that quantum gibberish), but also managed to conveniently *equip* the orb with every possible ingredient necessary to awaken us into existence? Now just throw-in the creation of the absolute perfect source of heat, light, and bio-powering energy to make all of this work, and then keep trying to convince yourself that all of this unthinkable order came about sans any form of guiding intelligence being involved. _______

[@DeathValleyDazed]

@@TheUltimateSeeds There is logic behind your point of view and logic behind Brian Cox’s point of view but “something” is whispering to me that both of you are partially mistaken and that in the future some alternative point of view will better explain our “reality?” I hope the Webb scope will point us in that direction but it could be that we’ll be left with asking more questions that we haven’t even contemplated yet?

[@alanhanscom7933]

If there's a civilized exoplanet that's fairly close to us, will the JWST be able to detect patterns of artificial light, such as from cities, on its surface?

[@shmookins]

There is a paper that proposes that. We don't know for sure, of course, but the mere suggestion of the possibility tells me how amazingly sensitive and powerful our instruments have become. Exciting times indeed.

[@doc-holliday-]

It can detect the chemical makeup of their atmospheres. So whether or not it can observe artificial light, it will be able to find chemicals whose almost sole explanation would be life. So wed go a long way to confirming alien life in general. Intelligent life might have to wait a while.

[@philcoombes2538]

& if JWST doesn't pick anything up, perhaps the ESO's ELT, with its *39m* primary mirror (vs JWST's 6.5m) might do the trick...

[@stackthatartpaper]

What they don’t tell you is that Webb is actually a laser that will blow up the moon. It’s gonna be awesome!

[@yesUcan2]

What's going to be learned when the James Webb Space Telescope starts looking back into the early universe? It is going to see galaxies; the universe (all the mass in a small, maybe earth sized) became, for a short time, a Galaxy creating machine. The first thing that happened after the the big bang (the big split-up), was one huge spiral galaxy got created in between both sides pushing full blast against each other (we should all know because we all had to choose sides back then. We all (all the beings in this universe) knew what was happening; we were all there; we are all eternal; where else would we all have been with our Awareness & Consciousness, we had no form.) creating that first large galaxy. The tremendous stress blew both sides into countless pieces, each piece pushing on those next to it creating more (much smaller) spiral and elliptical galaxies, black holes and other matter. The progenitors (the Universe in pieces) that created all this are now called quasars. Most quasars pushed each other to the edge of the universe. From there they control both parts of the universe, the physical and the light. They are responsible for gravity in the physical and the speed of light, radio waves… Some quasars stalled and remained in the physical universe. The JWST will allow us to understand what happened back then. We all can see, as well, that we are always a part of whatever this universe is involved in…

[@davidsheckler8417]

What's going to be learned?? How indoctrinated you've become 👍

[@jvburnes]

Good summary, but for the general public they might want to say why the ancient light is red shifted. Most everything in the universe is expanding away from each other at incredible speeds. The older and further away those objects are the faster they tend to moving away from us. When light from those objects is moving away at high speeds the same thing happens as happens to a truck horn passing you on the highway. As it approaches you it increases in frequency because sound waves are compressed into shorter wavelengths. As it moves away from you it decreases in frequency because the sound waves are expanded into longer wave lengths. This is called Doppler shift and the same thing happens in space. Things coming at you very fast are shifted more towards the shorter, blue part of the light spectrum. Things moving away are shifted into the longer, red part of the spectrum. Things moving away very fast and very distant are shifted so far into the lower light frequencies that they disappear from visibility altogether into the infrared. The very oldest, very fastest things are the remnants of the big bang and that light is shifted all the way into the microwave radio frequencies. If you have the right radio you can still hear the explosive after effects of the big bang (the cosmic background radiation). Think about that. Here's 12 hours of that explosion. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXOYm6Caf9uEm7c

[@ngc-fo5te]

Cosmological redshift is not a Doppler shift.

[@bobbybooshay8641]

Loved this guy when he was on The Monkees. Didn't realize he was still around.

[@DeathValleyDazed]

Channeling Davey Jones, hey, hey …

[@yourpapichulo8859]

Should watch him on the Joe Rogan show he’s amazing

[@mjl9002]

His final point does make sense, doesn't it? Either we are uniquely precious as a species and owe our collective consciousness the right to survive and thrive in our one world - or... We are but one of a small few seeking first contact across the vastness of interstellar space. Or there are many - and perhaps we are viewed as juveniles, not quite ready for polite society.

[@herrweiss2580]

We are very "primitive". We fight and kill our own. We killl and eat other species. Extraterrestrials are weary of us and I understand why they stay away. They are way smarter than us.

[@kellydalstok8900]

@@herrweiss2580 Or such primitive (unicellular) life they can’t build spaceships.

[@mikewilliamson4986]

Hmmm? We are searching farther and farther in the hope of finding life a million light years away, while we don't even want to know our next door neighbor.

[@cureit9161]

Yes, great point. What if we have small, very small planets in our own solar system. 'Not seeing the wood for the trees' comes to mind!

[@kingboagart899]

Get to know him a little bit and the next thing you know he's borrowing your lawn mower and his wife is popping over for a quickie. I'm done with the suburbs, but I love astronomy.

[@TruthAddiction1975]

Were finally gonna get to see what god really looks like! Awesome!

[@markzantua8753]

???

[@naenaedmysteries]

More like disproving god

[@istvansipos9940]

based on god's book and his behaviour in it, I am not interested. Seein' Artemis would be nice, though. I just don't hold my breath on that discovery

[@Steve-wb60]

Problem is as science keeps advancing, God retreats into the gaps, so you’ll never see your God!

[@gordonbridges4535]

Those stars that come into sight,where are they now?A further 13.8 lt.yrs. away or on their way back? What are expanding into.I'm 84 yrs. of age ,evan when I was about 5 I couldn't imagine a wall or a sign saying "you can't go any further".

[@gordonbridges4535]

3.8 billion lt.yrs. what's a lt.yr. here and there.

[@donaldcrawford3596]

Space was solid, then it exploded,and became visible. Wow, will it revert to solid. Mind blowing. Meanwhile, we enjoy our lifespan.

[@sofabuddha]

Something has always troubled me about these telescopes and that is why the photons don't stack up when viewing light further away. It's like looking at a car a mile away but every car between the viewer and the target car is somehow invisible? Why don't photons obscure each other? You can't see a tree on the far side of a forest because of the other trees in the way so how do we see photons from light years away without the other photons blocking the view?

[@marka6487]

That is why the current understanding of light is nonsense. Thinking that your brain can unscramble trillions of light photons entering your eye at nearly 300,000kps from every which way, is just dumb. It's mind blowing that they have put a man on the moon but still they believe this idiotic concept of photons of light whizzing around at these ridiculous speeds and then to add insult to injury, they get sucked into the absurd notion of time dilation.

[@drummerdad80]

Nasa lives in fairy land, they said Rosetta was a dirty snowball they can't even get that right let that sink in....

[@kronkite1530]

@@marka6487 So what is an appropriate alternative theory?

[@marka6487]

@@kronkite1530 So you can steal my Nobel prize? Nice try!

[@chasmantrader]

Alex Albon is really good at physics too

[@jeremyjohnson121]

Story about James Webb Telescope have root in small pub in Czech Republic. Its a fan, that this device is it now. Before a rise James Webb was it huge discution, how it made large telescope and move to space with current technology, and where... Aricibo Telescope was destroy now, but this story begins there... We are think about new telescope on the Moon, but this version was dismiss few minut's later. 17 years ago, wasnt cheaper space cargo, Elon Musk was study, just technology of space construct, or something construct on the Moon was it dream only in this Time. Telescope on the Moon have many other trouble, solar radiation, 28 days around the Earth rotation, its really technical trouble. So few minut's later are come current version of James Webb Telescope...

[@ophiocephalus]

Do light waves not decay??? I understand that any 'light' has a length and frequency but to come from the edge of the Universe???? It can't be bent so how has it negotiated every obstruction? There's so much gas and dust out there....... Wonderful Vid.... thanks.

[@kipponi]

Greatest find will be to find planet with water, Earth alike. Then we know life is everywhere.

[@vincentdavis3453]

The James Webb Space Telescope that was successfully deployed into space has answered a lot of the questions poised by Brian cox. The gigantic instrument told us the 'big bang' don't exist anywhere in space because there's no hole, no epicentre found, also the instrument told us the black holes when looked close up are nothing more than active shining stars (Suns). So, are the days of mythological dreaming has finally come to a close for Brian Cox?

[@charliebice]

One big fat universe that we will never know the edge of.

[@HeckYesHeIsUnbanned]

I swear the first voice clip was from JRE 😂😂

[@richardhowell9535]

Isn’t it obvious where the laws of nature came from? 🙏

[@wardog6488]

Looks like we are the first to arrive on this incredible tiny speck of life & living birth & death.

[@paulfinney4197]

Does the JWT remind anyone else of the gold run on Blockbusters?

[@jimokee1]

" …if we proceed on the basis that perhaps we are the only civilization currently present in (our) galaxy then I think we would behave a little differently." Most the world do believe we ARE the only civilization in our solar system, galaxy and for that matter our universe behave the way people have always behaved. Ideas, speculation and theories will not change or behavior. [maybe]

[@seadhajdarbegovic9609]

To say amazing is not enough.They lift telescope inside of rocket with remote control,thenopen the rocket and mirrors inside ,then send it to the destination 1,5 kilometars,at the same time the assemble all mirrors together ,also wth remote control and put telescope to the position with the perfect line to conect it form the earth

[@rossbrumby1957]

So which direction in space was the centre point of the big bang, or can't they figure it out- I've never heard mention of it's location so only assume they might not know.

[@noahf.3122]

Current observations point to there not being a well-defined centered. Space itself is expanding in all directions at every point of the universe which can be hard to envision. Think about a balloon with a Polka dot pattern on its 2D surface. As you blow up the balloon, the dots get further apart even though they themselves have no local velocity and are not moving away from a common central point as defined on the surface of the balloon. Now imagine this in 3D where the stars and galaxies are the Polka dots and you have the expansion of the universe.

[@istvansipos9940]

I think, you have these difficulties because you visualize the Big Bang as an explosion IN space-time. It was not that. It was an expension OF space-time. Imagine the very start as a point. Then space-time as an ever expending loaf of bread. We are one bubble of air in that bread. And the loaf is expending. No matter which direction we look. And if you re-run this thought expereiment once more, placing us into another bubble, nothing will change. We'll see all the other air bubbles speed away from us, with the bread expanding.