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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Yeah that's not likely.
Will they discover that some of the details aren't what we thought? I sure hope so, but the chances of a drastic change in what the age of the universe is or "Debunking" the Big Bang? Not likely. For that to happen, there would have to be a wholesale change in almost every field of physics. Not something that the JWT is going to produce.
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It only takes one black swan to disprove the thought that all swans are white.
I don't think if the Webb collects light from a galaxy older than 14.7 billion years destroys physics it just makes the universe older than thought, many times in the last hundred years the age of the universe has got older and I suspect it will happen again very soon.
As for the "Big Bang" there are a growing number of scientists who don't believe in it, rainbow gravity, extra dimensions and quantum mechanics are the new kids in town.
BTW, black holes already throw our "physics" for a loop and my spidey sense tells me black holes are a big part of the universes formation.