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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: 0.405s | source
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keyle ◴[31 Mar 25 10:59 UTC] 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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tiffanyh ◴[31 Mar 25 12:07 UTC] No.43534000[source]▶
My own dumb question …

How does cyclones/hurricanes relate to being “on one of two ‘poles’”?

Do you mean hemisphere?

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jeffdn ◴[31 Mar 25 12:55 UTC] No.43534491[source]▶
If all of the galaxies we see rotate the same way, are we “looking down” from a pole and seeing only those with the same rotation we have, as opposed to a more equatorial view that would be evenly split.
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vlovich123 ◴[31 Mar 25 13:59 UTC] No.43535156[source]▶
But the universe isn’t spherical. I’m not sure I understand this hypothesis as explained.
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x3n0ph3n3 ◴[31 Mar 25 14:24 UTC] No.43535431[source]▶
How do you know?
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paulrouget ◴[01 Apr 25 02:09 UTC] No.43542105[source]▶
Because measurements confirm a homogeneous and isotopic universe. A spherical universe would imply a special point, the center, which would go against these cosmological principals.
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1. vlovich123 ◴[01 Apr 25 14:33 UTC] No.43547265[source]▶
Could be a universe that folds in on itself in multidimensional space so that every point looks like the center. But it almost certainly isn’t a 3d sphere.