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James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise

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352 points instagraham | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 10:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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over_bridge ◴[31 Mar 25 11:22 UTC] No.43533669[source]▶
Seems like we've got a few of these imbalances now where you'd expect 50:50 but instead it's skewed to one side where nature had a different idea

Matter-antimatter ratio

Left vs right handed molecules

Now galaxy spin directions

Maybe there are others I missed too

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albertzeyer ◴[31 Mar 25 11:30 UTC] No.43533727[source]▶
For the matter-antimatter ratio, you would not expect 50:50, or would you? Because 50:50 would be a highly unstable system? In any case, you would expect that unstable states would be highly unlikely, and it would converge into a stable state.

I'm not sure about the other examples. But maybe it's a similar reason that it is not a 50:50 ratio?

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1. permo-w ◴[31 Mar 25 12:11 UTC] No.43534051[source]▶
but I was under the impression that equal parts of matter and antimatter annihilate, which would make a 50:50 system remain as such, which is why its such a mystery?