There is no Dark Matter and the Universe is Twice as Old as We Thought – HotAir

When the James Webb Space Telescope was first launched, the scientific community knew that it was going to be a Very Big Deal. The instrument would allow us to peer further than ever across the depths of space (and backward in time) and do so across multiple bands of light. The JWST has delivered on all of those promises and more, sending many astronomers and physicists back to their chalkboards to reexamine previous theories and assumptions. One of the biggest examples of this phenomenon may have arrived this week. Dr. Rajendra Gupta, a theoretical physicist from the University of Ottowa made a remarkable announcement recently. He claimed that new data suggests that the universe is nearly twice as old as the 14 billion-year figure we’ve been given for a very long time. And if that’s true, he further claims that there is no need for anything like dark matter to exist because the…