Posting a science question in the religion and spirituality section often means the asker does not really want an answer. His goal is to ask a question that he believes proves some scientific knowledge to be wrong, or that science does not yet answer, and make the implicit claim that the only other explanation is a god, and specifically, the same god he happens to believe in.
It's the "god of the gaps" - intellectually bankrupt, since it favors ignorance instead of knowledge, and because of the contained logical fallacy.
However, on the off chance that you really want to know the answer:
1. Humphries referred to the work of Tegmark et al. (2003). Tegmark et al.'s map shows an axis of symmetry for the quadrapole and octopole maps, but the hexadecapole map shows no such axis of symmetry, which could indicate that the axis is an artifact of a systematic bias in the data analysis.
2. A cosmic axis is compatible with the big bang. If Tegmark et al.'s results are correct, they imply that cosmology is anisotropic (not the same in all directions) on very large length scales. There has been, to date, little evidence gathered about the universe on such scales, but anisotropic cosmologies have been seriously considered. Goedel's rotating universe (Goedel 1949) is one example. Another is a universe with one spatial dimension compacted relative to the other two.
References:
1. Goedel, Kurt, 1949. An example of a new type of cosmological solutions of Einstein's field equations of gravitation. Reviews of Modern Physics 21(3): 447-450.
2. Tegmark, M., A. de Oliveira-Costa and A. J. S. Hamilton, 2003. A high resolution foreground cleaned CMB map from WMAP. Physical Review D 68: 123523, http://cul.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302496
2007-10-05 18:05:40
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answer #1
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answered by Dreamstuff Entity 6
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Cosmologists are still trying to unravel how the fundamental forces arose from the Big Bang. And while the specifics of galaxy formation aren't completely understood either, it should come as no great surprise that such orderly patterns develop. We see ordered structures arise from natural forces close to home too, in forms such as snowflakes and hurricanes.
Your terminology is a bit off, by the way. There's nothing "planetary" about the Big Bang; planets didn't start forming until considerably later. Also, it didn't happen "in the sky", as there was no sky then. The Big Bang *was* the universe; there was nowhere for it to happen "in".
2007-10-05 18:20:25
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answer #2
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answered by injanier 7
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A RC Priest was the one who concluded the universe was expanding after thus evidence:
"In 1912 Vesto Slipher measured the first Doppler shift of a "spiral nebula" (spiral nebula is the obsolete term for spiral galaxies), and soon discovered that almost all such nebulae were receding from Earth. He did not grasp the cosmological implications of this fact, and indeed at the time it was highly controversial whether or not these nebulae were "island universes" outside our Milky Way.[2] Ten years later, Alexander Friedmann, a Russian cosmologist and mathematician, derived the Friedmann equations from Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity, showing that the universe might be expanding in contrast to the static universe model advocated by Einstein.[3] In 1924, Edwin Hubble's measurement of the great distance to the nearest spiral nebulae showed that these systems were indeed other galaxies. Independently deriving Friedmann's equations in 1927, Georges Lemaître, a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, predicted that the recession of the nebulae was due to the expansion of the universe.[4] In 1931 Lemaître went further and suggested that the universe began as a simple "primeval atom", echoing previous speculations about the cosmic egg origin of the universe.[5]"
It's okay to believe.
2007-10-05 18:07:04
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answer #3
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answered by Shinigami 7
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Well that Creationist most likely had no suggestion how the gigantic bang idea is meant to paintings, and this Creationist additionally did not appear to have even a faint suggestion on how tricky atomic constructions may also be created inside totally sizzling and dense confines. The gigantic bang idea does not revolve round a concussive blast, it's defined as quick growth. The main points surrounding it are no less than in part give an explanation for in virtually each ordinary technology exhibit that covers it. This Creationist made no try to gain knowledge of approximately it, so of direction lack of expertise surrounded his declaration.
2016-09-05 19:34:04
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answered by lothrop 4
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What a silly question. You should be asking cosmologists, who make a living of studying the origins of the universe. Not believing in any god (we believe in 1 less god than you do, in fact) doesn't imply an expertise, or even caring about the origins of the universe. Besides, do you really think that beings that may or may not live in zero gravity find gravity to be 'order'? It's all based on your perspective and what you're looking for.
I STILL think that drawing the best possible conclusion given what we know now, and re-evaluating once more is learned is far, far better than looking in an old book and coming to the conclusion that 'God did it!". What a great way to not have to actually *think* about anything!
2007-10-05 18:04:34
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answered by nobody important 5
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As the bang happened, everything swung outward, spinning, due to the bang itself. some particles have a gravitational pull and they gathered matter as they spun, forming planets. They kept spinning, rotating on an axis because that's a natural thing to do. Gravity is still a mystery, as far as how it came to be... but we don't have the hubris to assume we know everything, like you believers do. We KNOW there is much we don't know... that's why science continues to move forward, experimenting, looking, searching for answers.
Besides... even if there were no good answer for your question, that doesn't automatically mean it had to be created by a sky fairy.
2007-10-05 18:04:13
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answered by Rogue Scrapbooker 6
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Let me guess, God spends his spare time spinning planets the same way so they look nice.
Gravity explains much of what you are asking about, we are just back to the age old question - did gravity just happen as a physical attribute to our universe or did some supernatural designer "develop" it. None of us will find an answer to that here on Y!A and if it were to appear, only half the people would believe depending on what the answer was.
2007-10-05 18:07:04
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answered by davster 6
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So this is really a question about order etc. And the answer is the same as ever.... Go read up your science, the answers are there not in a dusty and irrelevant 2000 year old book.
2007-10-05 18:53:30
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answered by Freethinking Liberal 7
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you call gravity order? gravity is just a fundamental force that all matter has. if there was so much order then why are the stars randomly dispersed throughout the sky? or why are the gases in the atmosphere combined and not ordered into pure oxygen, nitrogen, carbondioxide, and others gases? lets face it. the universe favors chaos.
2007-10-05 18:14:37
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answered by god_of_the_accursed 6
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How does a galaxy cluster move along its path?How big is a galaxy cluster?How do people know for sure what time the sun will rise?
2007-10-05 18:22:17
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answered by robert p 7
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