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Why does everything spin?

……..From galaxies, solar systems, planets, down to


atoms and quarks?
Did the universe start with (a) net angular momentum
of zero?
What is the relationship between angular momentum
and galaxies, and their solar systems and the various
bodies inside of them, etc.?
Where does the spin of celestial objects come from?
…..The big bang?

The initial angular momentum would have been distributed among the
specks of matter that make up galaxies as the universe expanded, leading
to the galaxies' current tendency to spin in a certain direction. If galaxies
have a tendency to spin in a particular direction, the universe as a whole
should have a sizable net angular momentum.
It is a case of spin or fall in. After the big bang, matter moved away
from its origin at high speed. We know from the cosmic microwave
background that the distribution of matter wasn’t uniform – if it had
been, the universe as we know it wouldn’t exist
Since angular momentum is conserved, it appears that the cosmos began
rotating at some point in the past. If galaxies have a tendency to spin in a
particular direction, the universe as a whole should have a sizable net
angular momentum. Other local gravitational factors may have an
impact on the spiral galaxies' spin orientation.
. Photons spin as well; they have spin 1. In elementary particles, all
particles with spins other than 0 spin, i.e., have angular momentum. Spin
0 particles and systems do exist (pions as an example, do not spin). The
Noether's theorem demonstrates that conserved quantities resulting from
the system's symmetries are present in the dynamics of motion.
There is conservation of energy, momentum, and angular momentum.
Because the angular momentum that the asteroids gave each other will
be conserved individually, once a path or a system rotation is created by
any contact, for example by the grazing impact of two asteroids, the
asteroids will continue to spin.
Gravity tends to draw matter closer together wherever there is a
concentration of matter, which eventually leads to the formation of the
first stars. It was necessary for matter to have enough angular
momentum to orbit a star in order to prevent it from collapsing into it,
creating the accretion disc from which planets formed. These planets
attracted additional material, some of which orbited them and formed
moons. Similar principles hold true on a bigger scale, with stars drawing
in other stars and subsequently creating galaxies. Linear motion was
created by the big bang. It began to orbit because to gravity

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