Some Anomalies of Astrophysics & Cosmology

Abstract

Some old and also newer anomalies of astrophysics and cosmology will be discussed from the TGD point of view. The precession anomaly of Earth cannot be understood in terms of gravitational fields of Earth and there are strong indications that the entire solar system is precessing and that interactions in a much longer scale are involved. Cold dark matter (CDMΛ) scenario and MOND, which proposes that Newton's law of gravitation is modified for small accelerations, are the competing mainstream scenarios but both have serious problems. The quantization of the redshift along the line of sight ("God's fingers") is an old cosmological anomaly.  On the basis of the study of CMB, Luminet et al proposed almost two decades ago that the Universe has the symmetries of dodecahedron. The James Webb telescope has already now detected numerous very distant galaxies challenging the views about formation of galaxies in which galaxies are formed via gravitational condensation. In the TGD framework, galaxies are formed by decay of the energy liberated in the thickening of cosmic strings to ordinary matter as the counterpart of inflaton decay so that the process proceeds from short to long scales rather than vice versa. This could explain "too old" galaxies. Flux tubes connecting stellar systems could also explain the precession anomaly. The effective dodecahedral geometry of the Universe, could be an illusion produced by a diffraction pattern produced by the so-called local icosa-tetrahedral tessellation (astrophysical analog of crystal) associated with Earth. The diffraction would be made possible because CMB wavelength at the maximum of intensity as function of wavelength is very near to the dark gravitational Compton length of Earth. This might also explain the finding that quadrupole and octupole modes seem to align with each other and with both ecliptic plane and equinoxes, which is in conflict with the cosmological principle.