Around 1988, before the lunch of the Hubble space telescope, scientists were all excited as they were saying things like : "we will finally see the early universe that was before the first galaxies" Physics models said so : only isolated stars would be observable without larger scale organization that would have needed too much time to evolve (f... !).
Being sceptical, finding the model stupid, i then hypothesize : "we will always see galaxies" that is : "we are nowhere special in time" the same way that "we are nowhere special in space" (is this called the mediocre principle ?? Anyway.)
So, from my point of view, this has been corroborated by Hubble, then by JWST, over 35 years now.
Possibly, it can't be proven in short time frame of below say, hummm, 1000 years ... 1 million (??).

I tend to agree with your opinion as these telescopes are pushing at the boundaries of accepted understanding all the time. It'll be interesting to see if your opinion is proved correct in the coming years.

"Beginning of time" my ass.

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Most models of the universe predict that there likely would not be enough time and a large enough density of galaxies for a protocluster of this size to form only a billion years after the big bang.

in my opinion : it didn't form quickly, neither did those early super massive black hole. The reason is that the universe is much much older than 14 billion years.

I've updated the post with the link. Apologies!

Hi Benjamin, do you have a link ?

There is no such thing as "now" on these scales

13.5 Billion light years from here... Hm. That is how long the light took to each us, at no point was that the distance? It is now FAR further away.