In case you guys missed it, we just found out the cosmic microwave background (the light at the beginning of the universe) likely never existed
>old telescope looks into the far sky and sees a glow
>everyone just assumes this is the hot plasma at the beginning of the universe
>we get a better telescope
>turns out with more resolution these are just galaxies glowing like normal way in the past again instead of a primordial soup
>without that we can't match red shift to a change in time
>it turns out the age of the universe is completely wrong
>there was no sudden expansion with cosmic inflation
>baryon acoustic oscillations which were the fossil soundwaves of the early universe might just be natural patterns in the cosmos, not echos from the beginning of time
>there's no need for dark matter now
>there is no need for dark energy to explain the sudden creation of matter (because the universe is way older now)
>universe might not be expanding like we think because time dilation from light going through galaxies and voids fucks up all the calculations
>big bang might literally never have happened
everyone take a big deep breath and laugh at the scientists

>scientists are shitting themselves because we just found out the cosmic microwave background is apparently wrong
>what should have been a soup of plasma at the beginning of the universe after the big bang was instead a cluster of MASSIVE galaxies surrounded by cosmic dust we mistook for relic radiation
JUST
FUCK
MY
SHIT
UP
This is the literal foundation for the big bang all built on the fact that we just had a fucking blurry photo before lol