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Well one of the comments is from Dr Wagner, a physicist. > Dr Jenny Wagner, a German cosmologist, physicist and author based at the Sinica Institute of Astrono

Well one of the comments is from Dr Wagner, a physicist. > Dr Jenny Wagner, a German cosmologist, physicist and author based at the Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Helsinki, told The Irish Times Gough has developed “an interesting idea”. It does read like science fiction, however, his theory did predict some of the recent JWST findings. > The “JWST is smashing all existing theories” seems to be repeated a lot, is there anything at all behind that claim? There definitely is. The early galaxies and super heavy black holes that JWST is discovering don't match the existing cosmological theories at all.

eesmith 1y ago
I assume Dr Jenny Wagner is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Wagner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Wagner . I'm a bit confused about her affiliations as that doesn't mention the Sinica Institute, but it could be out of date. Her most recent preprint at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.04135 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.04135 lists three: 1. Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan. I think this is their staff page: https://www.tiara.sinica.edu.tw/people.php https://www.tiara.sinica.edu.tw/people.php . It doesn't list her. 2. Helsinki Institute of Physics. https://www.hip.fi/people/ https://www.hip.fi/people/ says she's an Adj. Scientist 3. Bahamas Advanced Study Institute and Conferences, which I can find little about. (See https://en.everybodywiki.com/BASIC_(institute) https://en.everybodywiki.com/BASIC_(institute) , but the original Wikipedia article doesn't exist.) She's been affiliated with it for a couple of years. In 2023 https://phys.org/news/2023-10-theory-abell-hazy-askew-gravitationally.html https://phys.org/news/2023-10-theory-abell-hazy-askew-gravit... reports she co-authored a paper "proposing a new theory to explain the unique lensing seen with Abell 3827". Arxiv.org has 35 papers from BASIC, and 6 of them have Wagner as an author. This all suggests to me someone who is naturally aligned to heterodox theories. Of which there are oodles in physics.

eesmith 1y ago

I assume Dr Jenny Wagner is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Wagner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Wagner . I'm a bit confused about her affiliations as that doesn't mention the Sinica Institute, but it could be out of date. Her most recent preprint at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.04135 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.04135 lists three: 1. Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan. I think this is their staff page: https://www.tiara.sinica.edu.tw/people.php https://www.tiara.sinica.edu.tw/people.php . It doesn't list her. 2. Helsinki Institute of Physics. https://www.hip.fi/people/ https://www.hip.fi/people/ says she's an Adj. Scientist 3. Bahamas Advanced Study Institute and Conferences, which I can find little about. (See https://en.everybodywiki.com/BASIC_(institute) https://en.everybodywiki.com/BASIC_(institute) , but the original Wikipedia article doesn't exist.) She's been affiliated with it for a couple of years. In 2023 https://phys.org/news/2023-10-theory-abell-hazy-askew-gravitationally.html https://phys.org/news/2023-10-theory-abell-hazy-askew-gravit... reports she co-authored a paper "proposing a new theory to explain the unique lensing seen with Abell 3827". Arxiv.org has 35 papers from BASIC, and 6 of them have Wagner as an author. This all suggests to me someone who is naturally aligned to heterodox theories. Of which there are oodles in physics.