Re: Scientist says neutron stars, not black holes, at center of galaxies Forwarded

[Jonathan Silverlight]

In message <X0tmf.611057$x96.172410@attbi_s72>, Sam Wormley 
<swormley1@xxxxxxxxx> writes
> Happy Hippy wrote:
>
> >  The only question is
> > 'Whence the spin?'
> > The answer:
> > The Universe is spinning.
>
>  There is plenty of spinning going on *within* the universe, but the
>  universe as a whole....
>
>  Assuming the inflationary scenario is correct, one would expect any
>  universal rotation to be extremely small.
>
>  Some Papers involving "Rotation of the Universe"
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22rotation+of+the+universe%22+site%3AarX
> iv.org

Andrew Yee's post is really stirring the nuts, but hasn't that been 
shown to be the case?
I've quoted that passage by George Smoot in "Wrinkles in Time" about 
"one hundred-millionth of a rotation in the last billion years" in 
discussions on sci.astro, and someone else commented that's what you 
would expect from inflation.
BTW, no-one seems to have commented on the claim in this very odd paper 
that the sun is a rigid structure.
(Turnpike is telling me I shouldn't cross post to 5 newsgroups, but it 
does seem on topic)