Mar 31, 2011 09:42 GMT  ·  By
Image showing the central region of the Coma cluster of galaxies, which contains over over 10,000 individual galaxies
   Image showing the central region of the Coma cluster of galaxies, which contains over over 10,000 individual galaxies

The macroscale structure of the observable Universe may be in direct violation of the most widely accepted model the international scientific community has for explaining how everything came into being, the Big Bang.

The theory holds that what we know as the entire Cosmos today was spawned by a single point of no dimensions, but infinite mass and energy. This singularity expanded violently some 13.75 billion years ago, during a phenomenon called the Big Bang.

There are numerous pieces of evidence supporting this model, but experts say that evidence to the contrary cannot be disregarded either. And some of them are pretty large, massive even. In fact, they are represented by the largest structures in the Universe.

At the macroscale, the firmament is a very interesting place. Superclusters and massive galactic walls can be seen all over the place, but are separated by vast stretches of empty space. Some of these structures can cover as much as 5 percent of the length of the known Universe.

The Sloan Great Wall (SGW) is an enormous wall of galaxies that is considered to be the largest organized structure in Cosmos. It was discovered using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Measurements conducted during this study determined that it has a length of 1.37 billion light-years. Scientists believe that objects such as this one only form through the action of dark matter.

This type of matter exerts an influence on baryonic matter (of the type everything we see is made of) only through gravity and nuclear forces. It is believed that it is organized in massive filaments, on which galaxies “flow” towards superclusters and galactic walls.

The thing about these structures is that they couldn't have possibly evolved within 13.75 billion years. It is estimated that these walls needed between 80 billion and 150 billion years to form, which is a direct violation of the Big Bang model.

There are some experts, such as Cambridge University physicist Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of Britain, who believe that a basic theory on the organization and history of the Universe may be available to us. However, our own mental limitations may be preventing us from seeing it.

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Moore Center for Theoretical Cosmology and Physics expert Sean Carroll adds that dark matter itself was proposed to exist because “we don't have a clue” about many things that happened in the Cosmos.

For example, we have no way of explaining why the Universe did not spread out in a uniform manner after the Big Bang. Without dark energy and dark matter, this cannot be explained under the Big Bang model, Daily Galaxy reports.