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> How does drawing lines between galaxies show asymmetry You know how there's no way to rotate your left hand to make it look like a right hand? There's always
by rafabulsing 4y ago
> How does drawing lines between galaxies show asymmetry
You know how there's no way to rotate your left hand to make it look like a right hand? There's always something different. The palm facing the opposite direction, or the thumb is at the other side.
The same can be done with tetrahedrons. If they have all different length sides, you can find that the ordering of the sides from shortest to longest go on "spin" around one of the vertices, in a way that doesn't change no matter how you rotate the shape.
The way we understand the universe, we expect that we would have 50% of such arrangements "spinning in one direction", and the rest to "spin in the other direction". But it's actually not balanced.
> Why is that important?
If the result is confirmed, it's important because it breaks one of the fundamental assumptions we had about the universe. We don't know what would cause this difference yet, but the finding proves that there is/was something that would cause this difference, and it is the first clue towards figuring out what it could be.