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keyle ◴[] No.43533500[source]
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?

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permo-w ◴[] No.43534001[source]
maybe this is a stupid question, but is it possible that the big bang simply had some kind of clockwise angular momentum to it? how different is that idea from the black hole cosmology concept? I don't really understand how the two fit together
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ziofill ◴[] No.43535018[source]
It’s different because it’s simpler to assume that the total angular momentum of the universe is zero. If one black hole is rotating one way there must be other stuff rotating the other way to counterbalance. If you assume instead that the whole universe has angular momentum, well, where did that come from?
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rdtsc ◴[] No.43535206[source]
> If you assume instead that the whole universe has angular momentum, well, where did that come from

Would that be same kind of question as “where did the Big Bang come from?”. That’s a lot of energy that came from somewhere as well seemingly for no good reason.

I also wondered immediately about dark matter; could it be that’s where the counter-balance of momentum went? Like most galaxies spin one way and most dark matter would then have to spin the opposite way.

I am not a physicist so this is all random guessing of course.

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RandomBacon ◴[] No.43538145[source]
> That’s a lot of energy that came from somewhere as well seemingly for no good reason.

I never finished the book, but this reminds me of God's Debris by Scott Adams which explores a philosophy of pandeism (where God annihilated itself and became the universe).

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1. exe34 ◴[] No.43539409[source]
Some say god is light. maybe it was a high energy photon that met its antiphoton.
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2. permo-w ◴[] No.43540800[source]
I say that god is just the universe
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3. exe34 ◴[] No.43544068[source]
Why not just say the universe?
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4. permo-w ◴[] No.43545547{3}[source]
why not just say say?
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5. rdtsc ◴[] No.43547261{4}[source]
> why not just say say?

that’s exactly how it all started, at least according to john 1:1

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6. exe34 ◴[] No.43547886{5}[source]
was the word kaboom?