Cosmic Catastrophe

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by freebeard

All that above us and telluric currents below. We live in a dielectric plenum [like a cocoon]. Heaven forfend there should be leakage as 'blue jets' or 'red sprites' overhead.

Whenever the potential is great enough, the air ionizes and the voltage passes as the lightning bolt. I don't see anything else happening down 'here' beyond what we already experience.
I've never been impressed by telluric currents. Scientists directly measured them in an abandoned Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, between the USA and Europe, and essentially walked way empty-handed. And that was with a copper cable.
Imagine what you're going to measure in 'rock.'

[freebeard]

I don't see anything else happening down 'here' beyond what we already experience.

So it's all Cosmic rays then? Mutating DNA and all?

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by freebeard

So it's all Cosmic rays then? Mutating DNA and all?

We may only exist due to these genetic mutations. I was thinking in terms of climate, which they don't affect.

[freebeard]

I was thinking in terms of climate, which they don't affect.

Excluding the Great Oxygenation Event?

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by myself

The James Webb Telescope has seen past the Big Bang. It's all the same.

James Webb Telescope Just Detected A Massive Structure Older Than The Universe

Further to the previous post, the early galaxies are not only more ordered than expected, they contain billion year old stars.

[Piotrsko]

Typical for what I would expect from a billion year old universe

[freebeard]

The presumption is that Universe is 1.3+ years old, and this is 50 millions of years after the wall of the background microwave radiation.

IDK why they posit a barrier when they can't see that far back.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Excluding the Great Oxygenation Event?

What would be the association beyond the first photosynthesis? Once we had chlorophyll all we needed was ultraviolet and visible spectra.
Other than neutrinos, cosmic particles are 'stopped' at the upper atmosphere, and we experience only their daughter particles.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by freebeard

The presumption is that Universe is 1.3+ years old, and this is 50 millions of years after the wall of the background microwave radiation.

IDK why they posit a barrier when they can't see that far back.

I've got:
* 13.4-billion years for the age of the Universe.
* JWST will 'see' back 13.1-billion.
* Leaving 300-million years of un-observed time to the Big Bang.
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* The difference can be inferred by the 'Earth-sized' radio telescope data, angular momentum, theoretical physics, quantum physics, statistics, and computer modelling.
* If we can get a radio telescope into space, away from all human radio noise, we'll be able to see further back in time. Cell-phones have pretty much destroyed the National Public Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank.

[freebeard]

* If we can get a radio telescope into space, ..., we'll be able to see further back in time.

The theory as I understand it is that for a short time atoms didn't exist, let alone galaxies. How you can parse out what was happening then IDK.