From Newsgroup: talk.origins

https://www.science.org/content/article/universe-unexpectedly-stringy-which-could-unravel-theory-cosmos

Some physicists are trying to figure out why galaxies seem to be strung together instead of being evenly dispersed. They have a picture of the Universe composed of voids and circular strings of galaxies.

To me it looks like the initial universe after the Big Bang was foam
like. For some reason bubbles of matter formed, and burst during the expansion (inflation?) of the universe. If you have seen a slow motion
video of a bubble bursting you would know that the attraction of the
soap molecules to air and repulsion from water allow bubble formation,
but since there are hydrophilic and hydrophobic interactions bubbles do
not just burst in all directions but the shell of the bubble continues
to attract to itself and you get circular strings of matter. The
universe looks like there was an initial foam and the bubbles burst to
form the linear strings. In the mess the strings would hit each other
and probably form the structure of the universe.

I don't know what would form the foam, but my guess is that it has
something to do with the elimination of the initial antimatter from our universe. There may have been more matter than antimatter and after the initial annihilation interactions the matter that was left would be
mostly in bubbles in a foam.

video of slow motion bubble bursting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvZ2Z_s4Bo

Ron Okimoto

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