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๐Ÿงต The distribution of galaxy rotation in JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey

Anonymous No. 16624215

What does /sci/ think of this new fascinating paper that suggests our spinning universe spins more in one direction than another because it's hosted inside the event horizon of a black hole?

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/538/1/76/8019798

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Anonymous No. 16624433

It's trash. The guy who wrote the paper is a crank. He is a computer scientist, not an astronomer. He has made literally dozens of conflicting claims over years about anisotropy between spin directions. One particular claim was followed up by some astronomers, who found his signal was garbage. His catalog of galaxies had many duplicate objects listed many times, when they removed these the signal vanished. He didn't do the simplest checks. And you can bet he put the same attention to detail and rigour in this new claim.
For this particular paper he is looking at a tiny part of the sky, as JWST data covers small areas. Nearby galaxies can have correlated spin, this paper uses less than 300 galaxies. He could have easily tested his ideas by looking at other JWST data in other parts of the sky, the introduction even talks about some, but the paper only presents one field and doesn't say why.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00662

The guy has literally made the same claim before, and has a history of publishing bullshit. The stuff a black hole universe is just totally pulled out of thin air, it's not justified at all.

Worse still, he has already made two contradictory claims about JWST data in the same part of the sky. In the first paper he found more anticlockwise, with less than 40 galaxies he claimed it was definitely statistically significant. Now he looks at more data of the same area and seems more clockwise, contradicting his previous claim. He has debunked his own claims for us, this alone tells you his statistics are trash.

Anonymous No. 16625450

The gist of this paper is that annotators (who are volunteers) are inconsistent in labeling which direction galaxies are spinning and thus he used CNN to determine the direction of the spin and confirmed its consistently with manual inspection.
What is this paper? Fake color JWST images show that galaxies are spinny?