Thank you Orodruin for your knowledgeable input.
I posted my brief one-sentence question based on the following extrapolation.
About 18 months ago JWST detected 6 massive, mature galaxies only 500 - 700 million years after the BB. There must be many, many more less luminous galaxies in their vicinity. However, our own MW galaxy has required over 13 billion years to slowly grow through mergers to its present form.
I realize there could be mechanisms that formed these objects more quickly in the hot and dense environment of the earlier universe. However, it doesn’t seem reasonable that right out of the BB and Inflation, galaxies (some 50% more massive than our own) could form 20 times faster than the MW. It seems more reasonable to presume these luminous galaxies were forming stars many billions of years before the CMB.
If cosmologists decide to move the BB back in time, space would not be opaque 14 & 15 billion years ago, but have luminous stars present.
Therefore, as my initial premise states, if photons from these early stars began their journey from behind the CMB, they would have been passing our MW galaxy for eons and we would now be accelerating into their ancient photon-stream, observing these objects in the opposite direction from their point of emission in the early universe, and witnessing them grow younger with time.
Digital sky surveys, coupled with their computer programs, are exposing peculiar objects in deep space. I wondered if perhaps these fuzzy, dark matter dominant objects, like ultra-faint galaxies, Dragonfly galaxies, and even faint type 1ax supernovae may be phantom objects from that epoch. Images without substance in our present epoch.
Additionally, if a significant portion of the faint galaxies observed are actually phantom objects, we could conclude the universe is less dense, and therefore more ancient than presently recognized.
I leave it to you, but if you would like to illuminate (pun intended) flaws in my hypothesis, I’d love to hear anything you have to offer.
Happy pondering.