Did the James Webb Space Telescope Change Astrophysics? | 2024 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate
Published 2024-03-23
#JWST #EarlyUniverse #BigBang #Astrophysics
This year’s panelists include Mike Boylan-Kolchin of University of Texas at Austin, Wendy Freedman of the University of Chicago, Priya Natarajan of Yale University, Rachel Somerville of the Flatiron Institute, and John Wise of Georgia Institute of Technology. Delving into the cosmic mysteries unraveled by the JWST, the discussion will explore the telescope’s recent revelations, including bright and enigmatic galaxies that emerge in the extremely early universe–challenging conventional cosmological understandings of how galaxies formed.
The late Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the most prolific and influential authors of our time, was a dear friend and supporter of the American Museum of Natural History. In his memory, the Hayden Planetarium is honored to host the annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate—generously endowed by relatives, friends, and admirers of Isaac Asimov and his work—bringing the finest minds in the world to the Museum each year to debate pressing questions on the frontier of scientific discovery. Proceeds from ticket sales of the Isaac Asimov Memorial Debates benefit the scientific and educational programs of the Hayden Planetarium.
All Comments (21)
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Watch more Isaac Asimov Memorial Debates from years past in our playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrfcruGtplwGKzxDI_Ne06N…
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I wanted to thank Neil for inviting me and all the panelists and for his team for organizing this flawless event! I had a blast chatting with Neil and the other panelists on and off the stage about our latest work on the first generations of galaxies and their supermassive black holes.
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Neil’s super power is the ability to hold the entire scope of the esoteric conversation conducted by five other experts in his mind so that ideas are flowing in a clear direction. All this while ensuring that non experts in the audience can follow, and digest, the conversation. What a hero Neil DeGrasse Tyson is!
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I went through a large number of comments and like others would like to thank NDT and certainly the panelists. But, I have to imagine he has scientific staff, event staff and museum staff that work on these events. My thanks to those who helped put together this wonderful panel and event.
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I've seen all the others since 2010 that are on YouTube. Thankyou for continuing this necessary tradition!
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Thanks for helping an old college dropout understand the story behind the clickbait. And thanks for the easy conversion between redshift and matter density of the universe. That will surely get me out of trouble some day.
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To my surprise, i found this whole conversation extremely captivating, thanks to all who participated and all those who made it happen.
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Just remember.... It's all fun and games until somebody, somewhere, divides by zero.
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I have learned enormous amounts about our universe thanks to Dr. Tyson and this series. We need far more of this kind of programming on ordinary TV, because YouTube science shows, due to their depth and precision, attract mainly geeks and nerds. Like me. Actually, I'm pretty cool. It's just my wife, my friends, and all those around me who think I'm a nerd.
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Amazing!! This needs to be at least 4 hours long though! Let the pros really talk and get into some niche questions.
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Neil does an exceptional job of organizing this group as well as asking leading and probing questions to unpack what all these specialists in the cosmos know! Well done!
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How awesome is that. I was just wondering when the next Isaac Asimov debate would be coming. And here it is today. My favourite science debate/lecture thing.
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Just an incredibly, stunning panel conducted by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Thank you panelists. Thank you American Museum of Natural History. Wow.
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If only politicians had even a fraction of the intelligence that these individuals possess.
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It has taken me a couple of days to find the time to watch this in one go and WOW was it worth it! The future of science and cosmology is so bright. Thank you for bringing this to the world. Asimov would surely approve!
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they've cut out the Q&A portion at the end for the last several years of this debate.
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This was one of the most relaxed, informative, and fun to watch panel discussion I have seen in a long time. Neil asked all the right questions and the panel provided lucid, to the point, knowledge driven answers. The subject matter was the biggest question science is working diligently on answering. What, why, when, and how.
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Wow! Finally some well thought out and delivered estimations on JWST data. Thanks NdeGT for bringing such disciplined calm thinking to us. Great team. Great work.
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Hello Neil and team. Further to my previous comment, I would very much like to offer the following to the whole team. According to my hypothesis, which can unify the various fields of physics, explain Dark Matter: Dark Energy: Anitmatter, and two forces of gravity. Also, an alternatie explanation for the CMBR: Redshift: The atom: and a nonexpanding universe without any Big Bang or Cosmic Inflation, the following may be of interest. The biggest question that needs to be asked in Cosmology is, Why is it that we can only see back to the CMBR at the same distance in every direction? This presents two problems. Firstly, in a universe that is said to have a begining in a Big Bang and Cosmic inflation within a billionth of a billionth of a second, dissipating the heat, radiation, and Matter throughout the universe, this would imply that there is a limit to how far this matter has spread. If our Earth is situated anywhere other than the middle of this mass, we should see the CMBR at different distances in every direction. And Yes I have studied the ; Relativistic cosmological model, and what I say still stands. And secondly, since the JWST is proving that there are fully mature galaxies so far back in time that they would have to have existed before the so-called Big Bang, It rules out that the CMBR is not what it is believed to be. Since the only thing that supports the Big Bang is the CMBR, the only evidence for an expanding universe is Redshift and the only way that the Big Bang can be rationalized in a thermally equal universe is by the idea of Cosmic Inflation, which is a physical impossibility, Physicists are going round in circles trying to support the status quo. I would propose that the standard model is flawed at the level of the atom. There was no Big Bang and Cosmic iInflation. The universe is not expanding, has always existed much as it is today and extends to infinity, therefore it has no begining and probably will never end. There are two forces of Gravity, which I have a simple experiment that can prove this, and also proves the existence of Dark Energy / Dark matter. Dark Matter is an incredibly small Negatively charged Monopole particle in a cloud that fills every available empty space throughout the universe. Dark Energy, is the negative force of repulsion produced by the Dark Matter Particles trying to repel each other in every direction. It is also one of the two forces of gravity. The CMBR is not due to the Big Bang, but is a point where electromagnetic radiation reaches saturation. Redshift is not due to the expansion of the universe, but is due to electromagnetic radiation losing speed and energy over billions of years, If you consider over a period of around 14 Billion years, it would only have to lose 1 mile per second every 140,000 years to account for the redshift we see. This and much more is explained in my Hypothesis, ( The Two Monopole Particle Universe ), details of which can be found by typing Tony Norman Marsh into Google If you or any of your pannel are interested and can provide me with an email address, I am happy to send you a copy. Kind regards, Tony Marsh
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Neil De Grasse Tyson, you are brilliant at being an interpreter between these brilliant people and us lesser beings. You are the missing link! Thank you.
