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by cygx 2002 days ago
No, we haven't. See above.

No we have. See above: While redshift goes all the way up to infinity, in terms of cosmological time, there's still only 0.4 billion years between z=11 and z=∞, or about 3% of the age of the universe.

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> there's still only 0.4 billion years

In terms of time, yes. I was thinking in terms of observable spacetime volume. Even though there's only about 0.4 billion years before z = 11, the scale factor increased by a huge factor during that time (a factor of 100 from CMBR emission at z = 1100 to z = 11). That's a lot of spacetime volume from which we have no useful observations.

To quote you above:

> if our models are correct

What is this whole discussion about?

You're arguing a stance that assumes the model is correct in a discussion about the risks of assuming the model is correct.

But trust me - our model is not correct.