The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has not as yet overturned the Standard Model of Cosmology’s interpretation of Redshift. Although, the JWST has extended our observational reach into a region of cosmic history that, until very recently, existed entirely in theory and simulation.
Edwin Hubble understood the distinction between observation and interpretation. Halton Arp spent much of his career challenging the assumptions built upon that interpretation. The JWST has carried the argument into territory neither man could have imagined.
The Redshift Wars continue for a simple reason—we’re seeing farther than ever before. As a critical branch of knowledge, Science—in order to advance—decrees old assumptions, even when regarded as secure, must change with new evidence.
Capotauro is an example. Initially proposed as the oldest galaxy ever discovered at the extraordinary redshift of around 32, subsequent observations detected proper motion across the sky. It’s now determined to be a cold brown dwarf within the Milky Way.
Author and independent researcher David Drew shows when observation enters genuinely new territory, old assumptions become testable again.
