Resolution of the JWST High-Redshift Galaxy Crisis via Gravitational Infall Dynamics: Eliminating the "Impossible Early Galaxy" Paradox Without Metric Expansion or Non-Baryonic Dark Matter

Deep-field spectroscopic and photometric surveys conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an unexpected overabundance of luminous, highly evolved massive galaxies (M⋆ ≥ 1010 − 1011 M⊙) at extreme redshifts (z ∼ 7− 14). Within the standard cosmological paradigm (ΛCDM), where high redshift is strictly equated to cosmic lookback time, these observations pose an existential crisis: they require star formation efficiencies exceeding baryonic conversion limits (ϵ > 1) and compress bil- lions of years of hierarchical structure assembly into less than 300–500 Myr after the Big Bang. Building directly upon our foundational hydrodynamic and infall framework (Novák, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23670610), we demonstrate that the “impossible early galaxy” anomaly is an artifact of conflating gravitational potential redshift with metric spatial expansion. We show that cosmological redshift is fundamentally kinematic and potential-driven, arising from differential acceleration during radial free-fall within a macroscopic gravitational potential gradient. When redshift z is decoupled from cos- mic chronology, these high-z structures represent fully matured, ancient systems ob- served at varying gravitational elevations. Furthermore, their anomalous compact- ness, high core stellar densities, and flat galactic rotation profiles follow naturally from conservation of angular momentum under tidal radial compression (the figure-skater effect) without invoking non-baryonic cold dark matter halos.