A team of scientists has proposed a revolutionary idea to explain one of the greatest contradictions in our understanding of the universe: the discrepancy in measuring its rate of expansion, known as the Hubble Tension. According to a study published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astro
  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
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    1 month ago

    If that is true maybe that means that it actually is finite and has a center. And the rotation and light speed put an upper bound on its size.

    Then again the expansion of space doesn’t care about such mundane things as a cosmic speed limit so the universe rotation probably won’t either. Or the extents just slow down.

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      And if everything is rotating, and most is rotating in the same direction, it means we’re probably in a black hole.

      Science is going to be interesting during the next twenty years.

        • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 month ago

          I’m completely a layman, so don’t take my word as fact. But currently there’s a trend in thinking that because more than half of the galaxies they’ve been measured all rotate the same direction (as opposed to all random directions that a uniform static bang should result in) then the universe started out spinning in that direction.

          What starts from a very small condensed state, and expands rapidly while spinning in one direction? Black holes.

          Black holes also go through a life cycle that’s pretty close to what we expect or universe to go through.

          It’s a new thought, I’m not even sure how much evidence there is past the galaxyspinning evidence. But it’s interesting and has scientists thinking.

          It also takes care of any “multiverse” questions, since black holes are already in a universe. Some of the holes could be pocket universes, and we could be in one, with black hole pocket universes of our own.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    If it indeed rotates, this raises another question: What does it rotate around, i.e. where is the center of the universe? How does our position in the universe relate to this center, or which (known) structures have we observed there. Could it be the Great Attractor?

    • r.EndTimes@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      spiral ever increasing outward, wouldnt the center represent the big bang