I have talked many times about the evidence for the fact that there are vast filaments
connecting the stars, and galaxies together. These filaments contain plasma that flows.
This movement of charge powers these objects. In a new startling piece of research, scientists
have discovered that these filaments in the cosmic web, which connect galaxies, are actually
spinning. This comes as a total surprise to the scientist. Let’s dive in.
We know that all objects in the universe are in motion. Our Earth spin on its axis and
this rotates around the Sun. The galaxy rotates on its axis and is one of billions that do
the same thing. Galaxies were thought to be the largest structures that had an inherent
spin but now scientist from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, have discovered
that there are objects which span hundreds of millions of lights that are also rotating.
For some time scientist have known that there appears to be a network of filaments which
seems to connect all galaxies together. This is called the cosmic web. They believe it
is an enormous network of dark matter and what they term gas structures. Yet in all
the surveys they have done they cannot find one ounce of dark matter and instead only
ever find plasma, but that is a story for a different time.
What the scientists discovered is that some of the filaments they examined seems were
spinning and this meant they had angular momentum or vorticity. The scientist were baffled by
the shear scale of the spinning filaments and they clearly see that the filaments influence
the motions of the galaxies inside them to some degree but they point out that the movement
of the intergalactic structures themselves, and their exact effect on galactic dynamics,
have remained elusive for years.
So how did they discover this spin? The scientist examined hundreds of thousands of galaxies
within a few billion lights years of Earth which had been captured using the Sloan Digital
Sky survey.
In order to identify the spinning motion in the filaments, the scientist used the same
technique they use when identifying the spinning motion of stars or galaxies. They examine
the relative change in the red/blue shift of the spinning object from one side to the
other. In order to apply this on the larger scale they first had to identify a filament
structure. They then divided the galaxies from the survey into regions which would fall
on either side of the structure and measured the red shift difference between the two parts.
What they discovered was that the redshift difference between the two groups was much
larger than the average velocities of the galaxies. This was clearly a sign that one
side of the filament was moving away from Earth. This did not seem to occur in all the
filaments they examined due to the fact that they needed alignments of the filament to
be just right in order to get a strong rotational signal.
They also discovered that the strength of the rotational signal was linked to the masses
of the galaxy clusters located at either end of the filaments. The more massive these were
the more obvious the rotation was. This suggested to them that the gravitational force surrounding
the galaxy clusters may be part of the mechanism that makes these giant threads spin. They
also think that this rotation would cause the galaxies to follow a helical path along
the filaments and may help to explain why most galaxies seem to rotate in the same direction.
Now lets just take a little step back as there are a number of important things to breakdown
in this study.
I have previously covered the story that there is evidence that the plasma in these cosmic
filaments is flowing. In one piece I covered we saw evidence that plasma was flowing into
a galaxy which also happened to have quasars situated along this filament. In a different
video, I covered the evidence that they have recently detected evidence that the plasma
in the cosmic web filament appeared not only to be flowing but that this movement had to
be laminar or smooth. Meaning no collisions were occurring. Both of these two pieces of
evidence is exactly what we would expect to find if these filaments are formed by the
movement of the plasma forming a Birkeland current. Birkeland currents are formed when
plasma flows along magnetic field lines. This creates a flow of plasma that requires no
force and means they flow smoothly and with little resistance over vast distances. In
the electric universe, these filaments are what connected the star together in a galaxy
forming the complex branching filaments along the spiral arms of the galaxy. Galaxies too
are connected via these filaments and it is these filaments that help power the motion
of the galaxy which in turn feeds the motion of the plasma in the filaments along the arms
of the galaxy.
When you examine how a birkeland current is formed both theoretically and in the laboratory
you will see that they tend to form into smaller twisting filaments that wrap around each other
forming a helical shape. So if plasma is flowing along these cosmic web filaments we would
expect these to form into twisting filaments.
The important distinction between the mainstream idea and the electric universe is that in
the latter the galaxies are formed in the filament structure through a pinching effect.
Pinching in parts of a filament will cause the formation of stars in stellar filaments
and galaxies along intergalactic filaments. Galaxies themselves are also capable of converting
some of this incoming material into new material that is ejected to form protogalaxies, quasars
and eventually companion galaxies. I have covered the exhaustive evidence that Halton
Arp catalogued on this and in fact, the earlier video I mentioned regarding flowing material
from the cosmic web into a galaxy is a beautiful example of this process. There we found quasars
along a stream of material that was likely coming out of the galaxy along the filament.
The important distinction is that Halton Arp felt that there were seed galaxies that were
more active and would cause the creation of other galaxies which in turn would create
their own galaxies. These would eventually form a cluster of galaxies like we see in
the Virgo cluster with M49 being what he believed to be the seed of the subsequent galaxies
all along rotating ejection lines.
So when we look at the data showing that these filaments are rotating why would they appear
to be a stronger rotation in a galaxy cluster? They obviously believe this relates to a higher
mass and therefore more gravitational force pulling the material in the filament like
the water going down a plug hole would spiral faster.
There are two ways of looking at this I think. First, if we take Arp’s reasoning that a
galaxy cluster is formed by a seed galaxy which is more active than most then this means
that there must be a stronger pinching causing more material to be squeezed together forming
the galaxy and supplying the material for the formation of the subsequent galaxies it
forms. An alternative way of looking at galaxy clusters may be that that area of the filaments
is exposed to more magnetic disturbances leading to more pinching effect forming many galaxies
within the filament. In some sense similar to how stars form along stellar filaments.
More pinching or stronger pinching would lead to a greater load and hence a greater flow
of material along the helical filaments leading to a strong rotational signal. Similarly,
if we consider that each galaxy must exert a load on the intergalactic circuit having
more galaxies would mean a greater load and hence a higher current has to flow again leading
to a stronger rotational signal.