The Case For The Spinning Universe

A new hypothesis on how the Universe formed and behaves may fill the inconvenient gaps left by accepted conventional theories.

- James Michel Hughes

Georges Gamow, the famous cosmologist andnuclear physicist, proffered a suggestion in a letterto the publication Nature (1946)1 that the Universe may be rotating and that this may be the cause of galaxy rotation. A recent analysis2,3 of some circumstantial scientific information offers supporting evidence for a hypothesisa that the Universe, as an entity, actually has complex spin characteristics.

A Universe that was spinning would indicate the existence of a mechanical process in the aftermath of the Big Bang. This is not to say that magneto-hydrodynamic, or electro-magnetic, or other effects do not exist. It may be that a mechanical effect was a prime driver mechanism. What follows below outlines the case for the Universe having spin characteristics.

The very early Universe—well before it became visible and back beyond the "event horizon"—was then extremely dense and hot. Under such extremes of pressure and temperature, hydrogen, which we normally think of as a gas, could exist as a metal! This raises the possibility of a physical solidity being associated with the very early Universe. In this context, an ultra-dense young Universe may have behaved like a "single mechanical body" rather than being a single quantum mechanical body. Indeed, it may have had little quantum mechanical finesse.

Quantum mechanics is associated with the minute, at the atomic and sub-atomic level, but "single mechanical body" behaviourb is associated with something solid and dense, at the other end of the spectrum of material form and composition. The Universe may very well have had a childhood before it blossomed into something else!