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The wiki states theres a correlation between our Solar System's plane and the CMB but it doesn't really make clear what the correlation is other than 'aligned'.
by standardly 4y ago
The wiki states theres a correlation between our Solar System's plane and the CMB but it doesn't really make clear what the correlation is other than 'aligned'. What is aligned with what? The CMB just looks like a web of entropic radiation, I don't see any alignment. Going to look into this more because it sounds cool
- dreen 4y agoMaybe someone who actually knows stuff can provide a better reply, I think its about alignment of structures we see in the CMB.
- ponchopunchy 4y agoI used to work on a research team that focuses on the structure of the cosmic web (aka structure of dark matter). We found that our solar system's axis of rotation aligns with a local cosmic web "wall" that we are within. This makes sense from a gravitational POV since the wall is made of dark matter which has a gravitational pull. From one of our papers: "We also find that the local web environment around galaxies of Milky Way's and Andromeda's masses that are near the centre of a cosmic wall does not appear to have any effect on the properties of those galaxies’ dark matter haloes except on their orientation, although we find that it is rather rare to have such massive haloes near the centre of a relatively small cosmic wall." link to paper: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/483/2/2101/5203631 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/483/2/2101/5203631
- btouellette 4y agohttps://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0934 https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0934