Scientists confirm the universe has no direction
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-scientists-universe.html
The universe is not spinning or stretched in any particular direction, according to the most stringent test yet.
Looking out into the night sky, we see a clumpy universe: planets orbit stars in solar systems and stars are grouped into galaxies,
which in turn form enormous galaxy clusters. But cosmologists assume this effect is only local: that if we look on sufficiently large
scales, the universe is actually uniform.
The vast majority of calculations made about our universe start with this assumption: that the universe is broadly the same, whatever
your position and in whichever direction you look. If, however, the universe was stretching preferentially in one direction, or spinning
about an axis in a similar way to the Earth rotating, this fundamental assumption, and all the calculations that hinge on it, would be wrong.
Now, scientists from University College London and Imperial College London have put this assumption through its most stringent test yet and
found only a 1 in 121,000 chance that the universe is not the same in all directions.
