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Clockwise relative to what? Does the universe have an "upwards" direction? Or is it just relative to all the other galaxies?
If we were on the other side of those galaxies, wouldn't they look like they were spinning counter-clockwise? Or are they measuring spin some other way?
This to me indicates the primordial particle was spinning clockwise.
I think it's enough to say that it was spinning. There was an imbalance tending toward a direction.
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>Due to an effect called the Doppler shift, astronomers expect galaxies rotating opposite to the Milky Way’s motion to appear brighter, which could explain their overrepresentation in telescopic surveys. I found this a little surprising as well
- "Doppler shift, astronomers expect galaxies rotating opposite to the Milky Way’s motion to appear brighter" But how does that work?
Potentially a very dumb question, but seeing the difference between cyclones and hurricane on earth (clock-wise, anti-clock-wise)... Does it mean that we are, potentially, on one of two poles(?) of the observable universe, if we're observing most galaxies around us rotating a certain way?
That would be super cool to find out! And then it also begs the question, is there something at the center that unites the two poles? If so then what is it! It would also imply that our whole universe is rotating - the only reason this happens on Earth is because of our planets rotation and the Coriolis effect.
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But rotation direction depends on the observer. If i see galaxy spinning clockwise, this means someone observing galaxy from behind it sees it rotating counter clockwise. So are we just located so in the universe that we see 2/3 spinning clockwise and another counter?
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That would be super cool to find out! And then it also begs the question, is there something at the center that unites the two poles? If so then what is it! It would also imply that our whole universe is rotating - the only reason this happens on Earth is because of our planets rotation and the Coriolis effect.
I've been following this news for the past couple of weeks-- in essence your statement is what they are hypothesizing, and that the "something at the center that unites the two poles" might be that we are within a black hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_cosmology for the curious.
I think there is a men in black scene, where an alien is rotating the universe globe like a toy they are playing.