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Chapter 1103 - 432: This is a Qiao Ze Award-level Discovery_2

Chapter 1103: Chapter 432: This is a Qiao Ze Award-level Discovery_2

"Oh, Professor Matich, he left early this morning, saying he was going to Harlin Laboratory. Can’t reach him by phone? He mentioned recently..."

"No worries, I’m just asking to know what he’s busy with lately. Since he’s gone to Harlin Laboratory, never mind." After dropping these few words, Critiel Matich hung up the phone, picked up his car keys from the table, and stood up.

Harlin Laboratory is at 225 Boston Road, Westford, about 50 kilometers from the main campus.

The good news is that it’s not peak time now, and along I-90 W and I-95 N highways, it takes about forty minutes to get there.

An hour later, Critiel Matich arrived at Harlin Laboratory’s main building, and, with his Nobel laureate status, quickly found out that his protégé was in the third floor Workspace, designated for students.

As he reached the door, just about to knock, he heard a sudden cheer coming from the Workspace.

Among them, Ham Taylor’s voice was particularly loud.

"I knew it! Everyone, I knew it! This is really miraculous! Look, I said Q theory is correct! Let those who don’t believe in Q theory go to hell! We stuck it out to the end, and then reaped the victory!"

"But this is terrifying!"

"No, it’s not terrifying at all! This is science! Science should withstand doubt! None of us understand the universe! Really, nobody understands it! But who can deny this result?!"

...

They all started to ramble on, but it sounds like these kids made another significant discovery?

After hesitating for a moment, Critiel Matich simply turned the doorknob and pushed open the door.

That’s good, there are only two people in the room, one is his protégé, and the other is the graduate student of another professor at the Space Research Institute, he had met him twice but didn’t quite remember the name.

But that doesn’t seem to matter.

Ignorant of his student’s stunned gaze, Critiel Matich clapped his hands and said, "Alright, don’t look at me like that, it’s time for a report. I just overheard something, as a mentor, knowing what you’ve been busy with lately shouldn’t be difficult for you, right?"

Ham Taylor, half-opened mouth, pondered for a while and said awkwardly, "Actually, it’s quite difficult. Professor, after all, you are not a member of the Xilin Academic Society. You know, we can obtain some shared internal data, but these data..."

After hearing this, Critiel Matich suddenly felt his student should learn more about Huaxia’s respect for teachers and not join the nonsense Xilin Academic Society. So the mentor’s eyes started to look dangerous, though his tone became gentler.

"Of course, of course, I understand, Ham. But I want to remind you, Ham, you are not a member of LIGO, Virgo, or KAGRA. Theoretically speaking, you also don’t have the qualification to obtain material from these astronomical organizations.

So please tell me if I need to send an email to the editorial rooms of major journals, informing them to remove your previously published articles from the journals. After all, there’s too much data and source material that is not compliant?"

It seems no matter where on this planet, students still can’t match mentors.

When Critiel Matich expressed this idea with a smile, Ham Taylor also realized he should be more prudent.

Moreover, the primary data source for this analysis came from the James Webb Telescope, his mentor having collaborated with NASA. As it manages James Webb, if needed, his mentor could also access the James Webb data.

Certainly, the most important thing is to graduate smoothly from MIT and obtain that doctorate degree.

"Alright, Professor, here’s the thing, you know, I joined the Xilin Academic Society..."

"Just get to the point, what exactly have you discovered that got everyone so excited?"

"A distant galaxy with a redshift value z reaching 21.78."

"Cough, cough... Wait, are you sure this data is correct? Even the James Webb Telescope would struggle to detect objects with redshift value exceeding 20, you should know that’s physically dictated."

"Yes, it’s confirmed correct. Although limited by sensitivity, we made new discoveries this time, so the shooting time of James Webb was relatively long, then we found signals from it. Additionally, the data from Webb was verified with Huaxia’s gravitational wave observation data."

Critiel Matich was a bit dazed.

A redshift value of 21.78 in astronomy implies a comoving distance over at least 11 billion light-years, and a corresponding light-time of no less than 13.5 billion years.

According to the current mainstream academic theory, the universe should be about 13.77 billion years old, with an error margin of no more than 40 million years.

So, the question arises, where did this galaxy and the emitted light come from?

After all, the Solar System isn’t at the universe’s edge. Based on current cosmology’s understanding of the universe’s origin, the first batch of stars formed a few hundred million years after the universe’s birth, so these distant galaxies’ existence likely exceeds the upper limit of the universe’s lifespan as speculated by existing astronomical theory models.

After calculating for a while in his mind, Critiel Matich seriously looked at Ham Taylor and asked, "Where did you get these data from? Who led this observation? Even if you could observe such distant objects, the exposure time for Webb this time couldn’t be orchestrated by you."

"Cough, cough, last time attended the Xilin meeting, Professor Mueller, he also joined Xilin Academic Society, you know, he’s an ESA scientist, you know, the near-infrared spectrometer and medium infrared instrument on Webb and some cooling systems are provided by ESA, so their team has significant permissions.

So, under the guidance of the academic society framework, we collaborated this time. We’re responsible for calculations, and they planned the observation accordingly based on our results, and shared the observation results. Initially, upon getting the result, we also wondered if there was any error.

But this data was confirmed through a gravitational wave collaborative detection by Huaxia, ensuring this observation result is accurate. Indeed we’ve discovered some incredible existences, our universe is not as simple as we imagined."

Ham Taylor shrugged, and said.

A glow of unique youthful enthusiasm still radiated on his face.

Well, Critiel Matich being actually excited himself at this moment.

If this research was led by him, then he’d certainly be more excited, so he understood Ham Taylor’s mood at this time. What made him most proud was that the other side’s observation plan was arranged based on calculations by his student.

"Did the scientific institute recognize your results?"

"Of course, this is the email from Weber Scientific Research Institute sent to us, perhaps you’d like to see it too."

"Whew..." Critiel Matich took a deep breath, then stepped forward, looking at the computer screen Ham Taylor pushed over, and began reading the email content intently.

Evidently, STSI highly rated the scientific plan, and this part of the data processing ranked extremely high in priority.

That’s understandable.

Frankly speaking, this discovery has already started to overturn existing cosmology, whether it’s the Big Bang theory or estimates of the universe’s age, enough to indicate that now the universe model designed by humans may be partly or entirely wrong.

Currently, finding light with a redshift value of 21.78 doesn’t mean there isn’t more distant light, this limitation arises from the current observational level upper limit on Earth by humans. With advancements in technology, perhaps light farther and older than Earth may be discovered.

Certainly, now most important is...

"Tell me, Ham, did Q theory guide your calculations? What basis did you use for the calculations?"

"Well, Professor, the specific mathematical derivation I cannot explain to you, but according to our calculations, a hypothesis was reached; our universe is actually not expanding. The reason we think the universe is expanding is due to the changes in the speed of light.

In other words, in the absence of cosmic collision, the redshift of light is mainly due to changes in the speed of light. The early universe’s speed of light was much higher than the current speed of light. High light speed in the universe billions of years ago led to a shortened propagation time, so when we observe ancient heavenly bodies now, the natural redshift value is larger.

In reality, the time of their formation wasn’t as long as we initially calculated, which gave us the illusion that the universe has been expanding! Can you understand this?"