Cue the Moodies' "Eternity Road".
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Posted on 04/19/2025 9:24:25 PM PDT by Red Badger
Ping!....................
Seems obvious, but I am not an astrophysicist.
To everything, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep
To everything, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose, under heaven
🎶”…I’m so dizzy, my head spinning…”🎶
First 45 record I ever bought.............
Yes, but is it a left-handed spin or a right-handed spin ?
I don’t even know where we are.
They tell me we’re circling a star.
I’ll take their word, I don’t know.
But I’m dizzy so it may be so.
Maybe that's the reason all the components are rotating.
OR, maybe the spin of the components is what makes the Universe rotate. Like jillions of pinion gears inside one giant toothed wheel.
Everything that exists is rotating,spinning, or vibrating (which is just a tracing of the spin and rotation as the universe spins). Molecules are no different than planets or galaxies. As you well know, everything is molecules. As already mentioned, it just seems obvious. Often the obvious escapes us. Me more than others.
That reminds me of the theological comment, "As above, so below."
Hogwash!
Merely the vision of a drug-addled mind...
Angular momentum is conserved. That suggests a whole different universe somewhere that is spinning in the opposite direction.
Spinning with respect to what? If that something is outside of the universe then the universe is not all that exists, which violates the definition of a universe.
This would imply the many worlds postulate may be true.
No wonder I feel dizzy.
“Of course it’s spinning.....................”
Absolutely. I have figured this was the case since I started to learn about cosmology as a youngster. My question has been if everything spins and orbits from the Atom up why would the universe break this rule? It is like knowing all the Heavenly Bodies are spheres but claiming the Earth is unique and flat. Occam’s Razor should dictate that as a general rule everything spins from the tiniest Particle up to the Universes themselves, why would the natural obvious pattern stop?.
I think there are many Universes in a spinning Galaxy style arrangement. And possibly even many of those Universe Galaxies... I think it is much much bigger than we will even allow ourselves to comprehend. If we took down this mental firewall and started to do the math based on this probability as even just hypothetical like they are doing here it might just answer a whole lot of unexplained mysteries.
Unfortunately in our self arrogance we just know the Earth is still flat and maintain those firewalls. Even hypothetical thought is heresy. “But what if?” is taboo thought...
This is a good article and topic Red Badger, thank you.
Agreed! - Good thinking. Just because it’s difficult to measure the rotation doesn’t mean there isn’t any. Now that you’ve brought it up, it seems obvious to assume that it is rotating since most of the objects in it are rotating and orbiting already.
Relativity implies that there is no absolute frame of reference.
If the universe is spinning then the center of spin could be considered such an absolute frame. Any actual physicists chime in?
If the universe is all that there is in the physical world, as Carl Sagan said, then how can anybody say that it is spinning? Relative to what?
How would anybody know? What force outside of the universe set it spinning?
I don’t really care, and I’m sick of all these theories that are totally unproveable.
Happy Easter everyone!
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