Let it spin. A polite request for a rotating twin Universe.

A polite request for a rotating twin Universe.

Hardly any sane person with an elementary knowledge of science and technology can in this century believe that the earth is flat supported by four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle or that the sky is composed of perfect spheres moving on total harmony as ordained by higher beings.

We think we live in modern times, in an age of enlightenment where science is free to theorize , to explore and investigate, to boldly go etc, unconstrained by any social reality of who owns the land, holds the power or controls the money and resources or determines the ideology and culture within which science can exist.

There is something not quite right in current cosmogeny in that it sets out to be a theory of the origin of the universe, of all physical existence and everything known to the human mind, but is built like a house of cards, held up by unexplained forces which could easily collapse.

The Big Bang is unexplained at least for now and that should not be a problem for scientists because however far back they can go in time there will always be a search for causes and explanations, there will always be unknowns at the limit of knowledge. Even a singularity with loss of all information should not preclude earlier events.

Following the Big Bang are a number of secondary mysteries

Inflation, unexplained. Rapid expansion of the early universe.

The missing anti-matter, unexplained, although matter and anti matter should exist in equal amounts.

Dark matter, undetected, needed as an explanation for galaxies which spin too fast without breaking up.

Dark energy, unexplained as a cause of the increase in expansion of the universe.

The absence of rotational energy on the Universe as a whole. We can read about the spin of sub-atomic particles, and electrons that spin and rotate around an atomic nucleus. All atoms hotter than absolute zero have the random movements of kinetic energy, Comets meteors planets and moons move in complex elliptical orbits and even the sun rotates. Galaxies, super galaxies and filaments rotate yet rotational energy  of the entire universe from the Big Bang to the present time does not feature in the equations.

A universe alone in endless space, expanding but not moving or rotating with nothing preceding it and nothing beyond is philosophically equivalent to a flat earth as it put us as conscious beings at the centre of all possible existence.

A search for a simpler cosmogeny with fewer awkward hypotheses would start with an application of Occam’s razor or an enquiry into what extent the unknowns can explain each other. I offer here a suggestion of  a spinning universe or even twin universes spinning in opposite directions with the request that those in the scientific community more knowledgeable than myself  explain why it is not possible to have a universe which to me is more believable on aesthetic philosophical and political grounds.

The Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and anti-matter but the two could not co-exist but could exist in separate zones. There is no reason to suspect that anti-matter has negative gravity but the interaction of matter and anti matter at a boundary would be equivalent to ongoing nuclear explosions in which matter becomes energy capable of producing repulsion between the two zones and rotational energy in opposite directions. In this scenario the anti-matter would exist in a twin universe spinning in the opposite direction or be reduced to separate zones ejected at different times still spinning beyond the boundary of our known universe.

The inertial acceleration caused by ejection of anti-matter would result in rapid expansion of the early universe, seen now as inflation.

After billion of years the universe continues to rotate and centrifugal force pulls it apart. With expansion there is a weakening of gravitation attraction resulting in an acceleration of the expansion observed in the red shift, with no need for dark energy.

If the search for dark matter continues at great expense with no results it might just be possible to find out if some of the apparent rotation of galaxies is caused by movement  of other objects in the background in the opposite direction, reducing the need for dark matter.

A spinning universe is not without consequences and it is possible to assess to what extent these suggestions could be verified or falsified.

Whatever the original cause or causes of rotation of the early universe there should be a resultant axis of rotation. In an expanding but static universe it might be a reasonable first assumption that the universe is spherical with matter evenly distributed in all directions. This flows from an earlier assumption that the laws of physics apply throughout the universe and the sky would look similar on a big enough scale to the sky we see from our planet. A spinning universe should assume a shape more like a beigel or doughnut, a spiral galaxy with matter concentrated in the equatorial regions.

Similarly the red shift in a static universe would be the same in all directions but in a spinning universe it should be reduced in the polar directions and greater towards the equator.

A spinning universe would be much more complex and interesting with vast amounts of matter and complex structures on some directions and huge voids elsewhere. It would be more structured on a very big scale than it is locally.

There are limitations in what can be directly observed because the observable universe will always be spherical, limited by the distance that any information carried by light, other electromagnetic  waves and gravity waves can travel in time that has elapsed since the big bang. Even if the universe is much older than  13 billion years, as now seems possible, the most advanced technology would still be limited to an observable sphere within a much larger but finite universe.

There would be no possibility of information coming from a hypothetical twin universe at an unimaginable distance from the known universe unless Quantum mechanics leads to the discovery of entanglement been matter and anti-matter. This possibility must be regarded as science fiction and the twin universe hypothesis as not directly verifiable but research into the interaction of matter and anti-matter to see whether it can produce large amounts of rotational energy should be possible.

Within the limits of what is possible there should be a search for asymmetry in the observable universe, to identify possible polar regions and look for distant massive objects such as the ‘Big ring on the sky’, recently discovered. Our galaxy  and our local observable universe could be in the centre of the doughnut in relatively empty space or close to the edge of the universe.

The science of cosmogeny is still at an early stage. Most of the universe is still unseen and unknown and the greatest discoveries can be anticipated as technology reaches far beyond a level conceivable to Aristarchus of Samos, Newton, Galileo and Einstein.

What is more interesting is the persistence of orthodoxy, of ‘common sense’ , of a comforting world view which is the opposite of dialectical, which throughout history reflects the needs of a stratified social order whether based on slavery, feudal subservience or resignation to monopoly capitalism on a global scale.  

Robin Jamieson

April 3rd 2024.

Email robin4labour @yahoo.co.uk