One tenant of the big bang origin of the universe is that the cosmos is isotropic and homogeneous on the largest scales. Well, we know that that is not true. The cosmic web of voids and filaments of galaxies is not exactly homogeneous on the scale size of the cosmic web. Also in certain directions there are some massive voids where there are no galaxies, which indicate a lack of isotropy.
Two recent discoveries add to the list of asymmetry in the cosmos. The spin direction of galaxies and the arrangement of small groupings of galaxies in quartets would seem to not be entirely random as the big bang cosmology would suggest.
A paper1 published online, on 25 March 2024, titled “Galaxy spin direction asymmetry in JWST deep fields” provides evidence for an asymmetry in the spin direction of spiral galaxies studied in the same field of galaxies as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has collected data on the same field as the Hubble telescope some years back.
In their abstract they state:
The unprecedented imaging power of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provides new abilities to observe the shapes of objects in the early Universe in a way that has not been possible before. Recently, JWST acquired a deep field image inside the same field imaged in the past as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Ultra Deep Field. Computer-based quantitative analysis of spiral galaxies in that field shows that among 34 galaxies for which their rotation of direction can be determined by the shapes of the arms, 24 rotate clockwise, and just 10 rotate counterclockwise.
They found that there is an asymmetry in the direction of rotation of the galaxies with a 1.2% chance of that being random.
This observed asymmetry is in agreement with other large-scale analyses from all premier digital sky surveys, all of which show a higher number of galaxies rotating clockwise in the part of the sky investigated here. And here also as previously found the magnitude of the asymmetry increases as the redshift increases. Even where previous studies found a random distribution this research found non-random rotation directions in the spiral galaxies.
The authors suggestion to the cause:
The explanation can be related to the large-scale structure of the Universe, but can also be related to a possible anomaly in the physics of galaxy rotation.
I agree the physics is wrong because the universe is not the result of a random “explosion” i.e. the big bang. The universe is a creation by God. It does not surprise me that He created it with some special character.
An earlier online piece in QuantaMagazine, published December 5, 2022, titled “Asymmetry Detected in the Distribution of Galaxies” discussed two studies2,3 that found that there is an excess clustering of quartets of galaxies, that is, tetrahedral arrangements of galaxies outnumber their mirror images. Though confirmation is needed two independent studies yielded the same result.
Physicists believe they have detected a striking asymmetry in the arrangements of galaxies in the sky. If confirmed, the finding would point to features of the unknown fundamental laws that operated during the Big Bang.
“If this result is real, someone’s going to get a Nobel Prize,” said Marc Kamionkowski, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University who was not involved in the analysis.
As if playing a cosmic game of Connect the Dots, the researchers drew lines between sets of four galaxies, constructing four-cornered shapes called tetrahedra. When they had built every possible tetrahedron from a catalog of 1 million galaxies, they found that tetrahedra oriented one way outnumber their mirror images.
In both cases where an asymmetry, or even the possibility of an asymmetry is detected they always resort to unknowns, unknown laws of physics. See my bold in the above paragraphs.
In each of these cited studies asymmetry is present. That asymmetry I suggest is a signature not of new physics but of the created state of the universe. We essentially are seeing the cosmos in the state the Creator left it in after He finished creating. It is not totally random because He left some non-random features in it.
References
- Shamir L. Galaxy spin direction asymmetry in JWST deep fields. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 2024;41:e038. doi:10.1017/pasa.2024.20
- Oliver H. E. Philcox, Probing Parity-Violation with the Four-Point Correlation Function of BOSS Galaxies, accepted by Phys. Rev. D., https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04227
- Jiamin Hou, Zachary Slepian, Robert N. Cahn, Measurement of Parity-Odd Modes in the Large-Scale 4-Point Correlation Function of SDSS BOSS DR12 CMASS and LOWZ Galaxies, accepted by MNRAS, https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.03625
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