Oldest Galaxy "maybe baby" only!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101020/ap_on_sc/us_sci_oldest_galaxy Thanks Steven for this link.

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1041/ Thanks GW for this link.

In the new study, researchers focused on a single galaxy analysis of hydrogen's light, pinpointing the age, Says the Paris Observatory in the Oct 20 Nature online report. "A redshift of 8.6 corresponds to a galaxy seen just 600 million years after the Big Bang." That's if you are sure that the speed and distance away from us really tells us time--and if Big Bang is true. It has very little of the carbon or metal that we see in more mature stars and is full of young, blue massive stars. If they really are going by BB and "stellar evo" theory, then "young" stars should not have any metals at all in them, until they are near going supernova--"late in life" only."This is the first time we know for sure that we are looking at one of the galaxies that cleared out the fog which had filled the early Universe." The "fog" of left-over pre-star hydrogen--would only be expected to be there--if BB were true. Why isn't it there? One of the surprising things about this is that UDFy-38135539 seems not strong enough to clear out the hydrogen fog. “There must be other galaxies, fainter and nearby companions, which helped. Oh--that's convenient--they're too dim to see--but they "must be" there ... since the "fog" should be ... since the BB process must be true! I see alotta faithin' goin' on right here! Without this the light from the galaxy would have been trapped in the surrounding hydrogen fog and we would not have been able to detect it” Or----there never was any "fog" to begin with. Why didn't they even think about that possibility? Well, because--- What's most interesting is that this fits with theories about when the first stars and galaxies were born. Hmm ... "there have been other claims about the age of distant space objects that have not held up to scrutiny. And some experts have questions about this one." Well, I guess that makes DrJ "some expert" -- 'cuz I'm waitin' for the rest of this story, too. Keep thinking. DrJ