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It seems the universe is full of angular momentum. Planets revolve and orbit stars, stars revolve...

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It seems the universe is full of angular momentum. Planetsrevolve and orbit stars, stars revolve and orbit galactic centreseven sub atomic particles spin.

Yet the origin of the universe was the big bang where everythingexploded outward froma point source. As I understand it there is alaw of conservation of angular momentum saying it cannot be createdor destroyed onlt transferred. So I am puzzled where did all theangular momentum come from?

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You dont actually have to have any overall rotation in the whole universe for objects within the universe to be rotating in various different directions Imagine that you have a large cloud of gas that has no rotation to begin with but that you split it up into    See Answer
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