And the atheists complain about the Garden of Eden and Christ’s Virgin Birth.
SMH

No. There is no origin point. It’s tricky stuff.

The Big Bang isn’t like a bomb went off in outer space and we’re all bits of shrapnel scattering in different directions.

There was no space into which the Big Bang exploded. The Big Bang was the initial expansion of space itself and that space is still expanding.

Essentially we are inside the Big Bang. There is no direction where we can look and the Big Bang isn’t. It’s rather boggling.

Your comments are usually on the terse side. I’m often unclear what you are saying. Perhaps you might expand a bit more.

As I understand the Big Bang, there is no origin point nor another direction in which to look. The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) compromises the oldest remnants of the Big Bang we can detect and we detect it in all directions.
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The cosmic microwave background radiation and the cosmological redshift-distance relation are together regarded as the best available evidence for the Big Bang theory. Measurements of the CMB have made the inflationary Big Bang theory the Standard Cosmological Model.[52] The discovery of the CMB in the mid-1960s curtailed interest in alternatives such as the steady state theory.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background

My general impression is scientists tend to excessive optimism that “This time we’ve just about got it handled.” Plus these days there is more groupthink than ever, which is self-reinforcing. For instance, climate change.

So I tend to cheer on developments which rock that scientific assurance.

I’m not sold on Lerner either. His plasma cosmology which replaces the Big Bang universe is widely criticized. Also, Lerner is a science writer, not a scientist.

However, Lerner’s summary of the problems Webb is creating for the Big Bang comports with what I’ve read elsewhere, e.g. the quote from “Science” I provided, and explains the “panic” well.

The hard nugget of information he mentions that *will* be published in “Nature” is impressive. Again:
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The authors state that the new images show that there are at least 100,000 times as many galaxies as theorists predicted at redshifts more than 10. There is no way that so many large galaxies can be generated in so little time, so again– no Big Bang.
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However, I want to read that article myself.

Lerner is, at the very least, enigmatic. I have been trying to get in contact with him for about 30 years with nary a response from him or his organization.

Guth’s inflationary theory arrived with a tremendous splash at a time when the acceptance of the Big Bang was still in doubt. In its original form he proposed that the singularity suddenly expanded to a size roughly equal to the orbit of Venus in 200-300 years. The current “wisdom” is that it expanded to 90% of the current size of the universe, roughly 42 billion light years, in 1/10^39 second. He was only off by about 60 orders of magnitude but hey, it was close enough for Government work.

The history of the Big Bang is a study in advanced ad hocery. They have “discovered” more unknown and undetectable particles, objects, and forces than there are garden gnomes, fairies, and little green dragons in Irish mythology.