# LARGE SCALE STRUCTURES IN THE UNIVERSE

## Abstract

In this brief communication we show why superclusters would naturally arise in the universe.

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It is well known in the theory of the Random Walk or Brownian motion that

$$R=\sqrt{N}l$$
(1)   
holds where $`R`$ denotes the dimension of the system, $`N`$ the number of steps or events and $`l`$ represents a mean free path. It has already been argued that in the context of the universe as a whole, $`N`$ representing the total number of particles, (1) gives the Eddington relation with $`l`$ being the pion Compton wavelength.   
Let us now consider $`N10^6`$ constituents in the universe. Then (1) gives

$$l10^{25}cm$$
(2)   
Indeed there is observational evidence for (2): We can easily see that (2) holds for superclusters, both in terms of their size $`l`$ and their number $`N`$. Further, (1) shows that these superclusters must have a two dimension character, which is also true.   
It is ofcourse well known that one cannot apply the theory of Brownian motion to stars or even galaxies because they are gravitationally bound. However for superclusters with the huge separating voids, Brownian motion would be a reasonable approximation, as can be seen by the fact that (2) is valid. So it is natural that such superclusters should arise.   
It is interesting to note also that recently, in a completely different context, it was suggested that there could be a large scale quantization, giving precisely (2) as the quantized length.