Explain like I'm five here, was JWST supposed to be able to see further back than Hubble to the origins of the universe? Has this happened? What are the findings?
Our understanding of the universe changes all the time as we gain more information. I find this rationale approach very good, but it can also be really frustrating when debating the origins and composition of the universe with someone who takes theories as "categorical" truths.
Whilst I have no doubt in the truth of this claim, the fact is all over the west we have research conducted by businesses for business benefit, whether its big corps telling you why their products are healthy for you or even in the 60s when there was research conducted that claims "smoking was good for you" and it took years for research to prove it actually causes cancer.
There's a big difference between "private research intended for public consumption" (marketing / PR / legal), and "private research for private consumption" (R&D / engineering / product development). Companies usually keep the latter to themselves, and the public space gets filled with the former. (To be fair, it's quite possible the first type also has bigger budgets, unfortunately).
Unrelated, but somewhat interesting in Hindu cosmology and ancient scriptures the edges of the bubble of the universe store everything happening, that has happened and is to happen.
Same in actual cosmology, it is called the holographic principle. The concept is that 3D bodies can be losslessly represented on a distant 2D plane which envelops them or alongside the spherical perimeter of a black hole if they are squished to it
It is not all that applicable, but it is interesting to think about and there are people studying it
Only spiritual beings on other planetary systems can, who have "siddhi" (powers beyond mundane earthly humans). The message of the Gita however is tapping into all of this is a waste of time as you want to escape from it (moksha/salvation/liberation)
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