The rotation of galaxies in the same direction in giga-ly scale as evidence for the TGD view of space-time and cosmic quantum coherence

Sabine Hossenfelder told in her Youtube video (see this) about the recent finding of Lior Shamir (see the article) that galaxies have a clear tendency to rotate in the same direction in Giga light-year length scales. There is also a popular article (see this) about this.

The following is the abstract of the article of Shamir.

JWST provides a view of the Universe never seen before, and specifically fine details of galaxies in deep space. JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) is a deep field survey, providing an unprecedentedly detailed view of galaxies in the early Universe. The field is also in relatively close proximity to the Galactic pole. Analysis of spiral galaxies by their direction of rotation in JADES shows that the number of galaxies in that field that rotate in the opposite direction relative to the Milky Way galaxy is 50 per cent higher than the number of galaxies that rotate in the same direction relative to the Milky Way. The analysis is done using a computer-aided quantitative method, but the difference is so extreme that it can be noticed and inspected even by the unaided human eye. These observations are in excellent agreement with deep fields taken at around the same footprint by the Hubble Space Telescope and JWST. The reason for the difference may be related to the structure of the early Universe, but it can also be related to the physics of galaxy rotation and the internal structure of galaxies. In that case the observation can provide possible explanations to other puzzling anomalies such as the tension and the observation of massive mature galaxies at very high redshifts.

The popular article says that the fractions of the galaxies rotating to opposite directions with respect to the Milky Way are 2/3 and 1/3 and there is no doubt that the observation is real. The Doppler effect allows us to deduce the rotation direction for a given galaxy. Blueshift occurs in the opposite direction of rotation. The scale occurs in the scale of Giga light year.

From the article of Shamir one learns that these kinds of observations have been made already earlier, as early as 1985. Already Zeldowich observed that galaxies are associated with long linear structures and tend to propagate in the same direction. I have proposed a TGD based explanation in terms of long cosmic strings whose tangles give rise to the generation of galaxies along them (see this).

Several explanations for the findings of Shamir have been proposed. The entire universe has been proposed to rotate. Also a fractal Universe has been proposed in which case the rotating structures would appear in all scales. TGD predicts that space-times are 4-surfaces in H=M⁴×CP₂. This leads to the notion of many-sheeted space-time strongly suggesting the possibility of fractal structures in all scales. A fractal structure in a given scale would correspond to a quantum coherence region. The realization that holography= holomorphy principle reduces the extremely non-linear field equations of TGD to algebraic equations led to the surprising conclusion that the fractality in question is a 4-D generalization of the fractality of Mandelbrot fractals and Julia sets (see this). The number theoretic vision predicts a hierarchy of effective Planck constants and provides a precise formulation for what the long range quantum coherence means.

Galaxies as 4-surfaces assignable with monopole flux tubes obtained by a thickening of a cosmic string are predicted to be organized along long string-like objects, cosmic strings, and be highly correlated, for instance having correlated spin directions. This explains the findings of Zeldowich and quantum large scale coherence allows us to understand the more general findings. In the very early Universe cosmic strings with 2-D M^4 projection would have dominated.

For the TGD based cosmology and astrophysics see for instance this. For the recent number theoretic vision of TGD see this.

For a summary of earlier postings see Latest progress in TGD.

For the lists of articles (most of them published in journals founded by Huping Hu) and books about TGD see this.