“It’s a very, very beautiful calculation, but it’s the best example I know of the relationship between these rather abstract quantities perhaps and something that you can look at in a telescope.”

Originally, the abundance of bright, early galaxies shocked astronomers. After 3 years of JWST, we now know what’s really going on.

“You can’t possibly exaggerate how much better it is to live in a peaceful, orderly society, and to be wealthy, and healthy, and surrounded by people who you love.”

Coming from just 280 million years after the Big Bang, or 98% of cosmic history ago, this new, massive galaxy is a puzzle, but not a mirage.

In nature, business, and life, survival doesn’t belong to the optimized — it belongs to those with a built-in buffer.