* Astronomy

For the past few years, I have worked primarily in astrophysics, in particular analysing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survery (SDSS). This has led to strong evidence for a cosmic parity violation in the Universe, as indicated by a statistically significant excess of left-handed spiral galaxies toward the north Galactic pole and an excess of right-handed in the opposite direction. This also suggests that our Universe has an axis and a net angular momentum. By angular momentum conservation this means the Universe was born spinning. We can't see outside of our Universe, so we'd have to assume it is spinning relative to other universes in a higher dimensional space. Presumably the Big Bang was spinning initially, and as it expanded the net angular momentum was dissipated among the galaxies. Now we still see it through the preferred spin direction.
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