Hydrodynamics of structure formation

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The discussion critiques the standard LambdaCDM model of the universe, highlighting its flaws in predicting structure formation. It proposes an alternative view based on collisional fluid mechanics, suggesting that turbulence and viscosity during the plasma epoch lead to a top-down formation of structures from superclusters to galaxies. Observations of cosmic voids and protogalaxies support this model, indicating a more complex interaction of gravitational forces than previously thought. The authors argue that this turbulence results in distinct morphological patterns in the universe, challenging existing theories about dark matter and energy. Ultimately, they suggest that the universe may behave more like a liquid than a collection of discrete particles.
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[9] arXiv:0809.2330 [pdf, other]
Title: Hydrodynamics of structure formation in the early Universe
Authors: C. H. Gibson (UCSD), T. M. Nieuwenhuizen (University of Amsterdam), R. E Schild (Harvard)
Comments: 6 pages 4 figures. Additional information at this http URL
Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
Theory and observations reveal fatal flaws in the standard LambdaCDM model. The cold dark matter hierarchical clustering paradigm predicts a gradual bottom-up growth of gravitational structures assuming linear, collisionless, ideal flows and unrealistic CDM condensations and mergers. Collisional fluid mechanics with viscosity, turbulence, and diffusion predicts a turbulent big bang and top-down viscous-gravitational fragmentation from supercluster to galaxy scales in the plasma epoch, as observed from 0.3 Gpc void sizes, 1.5 Gpc spins and Kolmogorov-fingerprint-turbulence-signatures in the CMB. Turbulence produced at expanding gravitational void boundaries causes a linear morphology of 3 Kpc fragmenting plasma-protogalaxies along vortex lines, as observed in deep HST images. After decoupling, gas-protogalaxies fragment into primordial-density, million-solar-mass clumps of earth-mass planets forming 0.3 Mpc galactic-dark-matter. White-dwarf-heated planet-atmospheres give dimmed SNe Ia events and false gamma-ray-burst luminosity distances, not dark-energy-Lambda. Quasar microlensing observations rule out no-hair black hole models and require galaxy-dark-matter to be planets-in-clumps.
 
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So the authors believe that the universe should behave like a liquid?
 
sysreset said:
So the authors believe that the universe should behave like a liquid?


sysreset, if you read down to conclusion it is explained.
 
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