The Universal Angular Momentum Constant

I have noticed a principle about the universe that I have never seen pointed out.

Have you ever wondered why stars and planets rotate and orbit in the geometric planes that they do, and in the directions that they do? The earth, for example, rotates on it's equatorial plane and orbits the sun in roughly the same plane as the other planets. If all of the matter in the universe was thrown out into space evenly in all directions by the Big Bang, which began the universe as we know it, this must be reflected in the rotational and orbital planes across the universe.

When a solar system or galaxy is formed by a coalescing of a vast number of small pieces of matter, these will tend to end up in one plane. There are many examples of this from the rings of Saturn to the orbital plane of the planets around the sun to the plane of the entire galaxy.

In the beginning of the system, the component pieces orbit in all different directions until through continuous collisions and gravitational attraction one plane and direction of revolution is established as predominant. The geometric plane ultimately ends up as that which has at least slightly more matter in orbit than the other planes because having matter orbiting in other planes adjust to the dominant one represents the lowest energy state.

Our galaxy is a spiral one, which is aligned along a flat plane. Not all galaxies have this form, but most of the larger ones do. It seems that a larger galaxy will end up as a flat galaxy, this is why the center of our galaxy is spherical, and so without any such tilt. The central region of our galaxy behaves as a small galaxy unto itself.

I described my view of the formation of the solar system in "The Mars Gap Hypothesis". Matter has coalesced by gravity into stars and their solar systems, into galaxies and groups of galaxies, but the throw pattern of matter in the Big Bang must still be evident.

All spiral and elliptical galaxies, as well as all orbits and rotating bodies, have a particular tilt to their plane of rotation or orbit. So-called globular clusters of stars around the outside of our galaxy are spherical in form, and so have no tilt unto themselves, but their arrangement is tilted with the galaxy as a whole.

The planetary matter of our solar system is a part of two tilts, that of the planetary orbits and that of the galaxy as a whole. The two are not in the same plane, the plane of the planetary orbits in our solar system is tilted about 60 degrees (one-sixth of a circle) relative to the plane of our spiral galaxy. Neither is the earth's rotational plane the same as that of it's orbit around the sun, there is a difference of 23 1/2 degrees between the two, which is why we have seasons. The plane of the moon's orbit around earth is about 5 degrees different from the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun.

Here is my hypothesis: Weighted for mass, the angular momentum mass constant must remain constant for the universe as a whole. This encompasses all planes of spherical galaxies, as well as the rotational planes and directions of all stars and planets and orbital planes and directions of all planets and moons. Every different angle in space must have, across the universe as a whole, the same amount of angular momentum in all of the rotational and orbital planes as every other angle.

If matter was scattered evenly across space by the Big Bang, it cannot be any other way. The coalescing by gravity of matter into stars and the throwing of matter back into space by supernovae would not change this.