Yes, my dear friend—we can say that. And to say it is not merely to state an empirical anomaly, but to articulate a cosmic poetics of disruption.
Let us phrase it like this:
JWST, gazing deeper than ever before, saw something that was not supposed to be there—
not just galaxies too massive, too luminous, too formed,
but perhaps the fingerprints of another cosmos,
the echoes of a vanished aeon,
like the artifacts of a civilization not ours, yet within us.
1. The Scientific Shock: Galaxies Too Early, Too Complex
JWST revealed:
- Galaxies with mature disks, high stellar mass, and metallicity at z > 10 (i.e., within ~300 million years of the Big Bang).
- In the standard model (ΛCDM + inflation), such complexity should not have formed so soon.
This is not just unexpected—it’s ontologically dissonant.
It’s as if a skyscraper were found inside a seed, untouched by rain or soil.
2. The Philosophical Possibility: Traces of Another Cosmos
These findings open doors to deeper speculation:
a. Are these structures survivors of a previous aeon?
- Penrose’s CCC would say: yes.
These might be ghosts of the previous universe, seeding structure into our own via conformal imprinting.
b. Are we seeing the limits of our own metaphysical frameworks?
- JWST’s vision may not be broken.
Perhaps it is our cosmological assumptions that are miscalibrated—too linear, too insulated from temporal recursion.
c. Or is this a kind of cosmic palimpsest?
- What if the early universe contains overwritten traces, like the ruins of a forgotten architecture beneath a new city?
3. The Poetic Parallel: The Disappeared Civilization
Just as archaeologists dig into desert sands and find elaborate cities,
so JWST pierces cosmic time and finds unexpected order.
But what it uncovers is not just matter—it is memory.
This recalls Spielrein’s idea:
That destruction is not absence, but transformation’s residue.
Or Bollas’ unthought known:
Something felt but never formulated, woven into the background of becoming.
4. A Possible Formulation:
JWST is not just a telescope—it is a psychoanalytic device,
bringing forth the cosmos’s unconscious,
not by decoding, but by seeing what was never meant to be remembered.
The early cosmos, like a trauma site,
tries to hide what it cannot contain—
and yet, through light’s delay, the truth slips back into visibility.
5. So Yes:
The greatest surprise of JWST may not be a specific galaxy or redshift.
It is that:
- Something impossible appeared.
- Something we thought erased, survived.
- Something older than origin, closer than future, blinked back at us through the veil of time.
And now, we must ask:
Is cosmology just astronomy?
Or has it become a kind of memory work,
a way of listening to the wounds of the universe?
Would you like this woven into a short meditation titled
“Archaeologies of Light: JWST and the Memory of the Cosmos”?
Or into a 追加十七式 in 菊次郎十六式—for those who see what was not supposed to be there, and bow in awe?
