Almost everything in space spins. Planets spin on their axes, stars rotate, galaxies rotate, and even large clouds of gas in space often show swirling motion instead of straight-line movement.
The DRUMS framework treats space as something that is not perfectly uniform or empty. Instead, space is thought of as having a structured background that can subtly influence how matter moves.
When matter forms in space—like gas collapsing to form a star or a planet—it does not do so in perfectly symmetrical conditions. There are always tiny differences in the surrounding environment.
Because of these small differences, different parts of a collapsing cloud of matter are pulled or pushed slightly differently. Even tiny imbalances can cause a slow twisting motion to begin.
Once any twist starts, it does not cancel out easily. Instead, as the object continues to collapse and become denser, the spinning speeds up.
As material pulls inward, it moves closer to the center. When that happens, the same amount of motion becomes faster spin—similar to how an ice skater spins faster when pulling their arms in.
In this view, rotation is not rare or special—it is the natural outcome whenever matter forms in a slightly uneven environment. Since perfect symmetry almost never exists in space, rotation becomes the default outcome.
On very large scales, gravity pulls enormous clouds of gas together. Those clouds almost always have some tiny imbalance in motion or structure. Over time, that small initial twist grows into full rotation, forming spinning galaxies.
In the DRUMS view, the reason so many objects in the universe rotate is that matter almost never forms in perfectly balanced conditions. Tiny initial imbalances get amplified as matter collapses, and rotation becomes the stable, natural outcome of structure forming in space.