The Virgo Alignment Puzzle in Propagation of Radiation on Cosmological Scales

We revisit the problem of the cosmic microwave background on the largest angular scales. Temperature multipoles of any order factor naturally into a direct product of axial quantities and cosets. Striking coincidences exist among the axes associated with the dipole, quadrupole, and octupole CMB moments. These axes also coincide well with two other axes independently determined from polarizations at radio and optical frequencies propagating on cosmological scales. The five coincident axes strongly indicate physical correlation and anisotropic properties of the cosmic medium not predicted by the conventional Big Bang scenario.