Possible Explanation of Long Cosmic Spinning Filaments

Abstract

A long filament with length of order 10⁸ ly characterizing the sizes of large cosmic voids has been studied. The filament consists of galaxies and the surprising finding is that besides moving along the filament, the galaxies associated with the filaments spin around the filament axis. This finding suggests a network of filaments of length of order 10⁸ ly and thickness of order 10⁶ ly intersecting at the nodes formed by large galaxy clusters. The larger the masses at the ends of the filament are, the larger the spin is. How angular momentum is generated is the problem. In Newtonian and General Relativistic frameworks it is very difficult to imagine any plausible mechanism. TGD suggests a mechanism in which the compensating angular momentum associated with visible objects is associated with the dark matter associated with the cosmic strings and the flux tubes resulting as they thicken. Dark matter would therefore have a fundamental role in the gravitational dynamics in all scales.