The torsional offset of the CMB dipole

RSI proposes that the Inhale current does not run in a straight line toward the Still Core. It spirals, in a helical arc set by the toroid's rotation. Two directions in the sky should therefore never line up exactly. The CMB dipole measures our velocity within the medium. The bulk flow toward the Great Attractor marks the slope of the return side's pressure gradient. RSI proposes that they differ by the spiral's pitch.

Galaxies fall along the pressure gradient rather than along the medium's streamlines, so the size of the offset has to be derived from the direction of that gradient (it depends on how fast the Inhale swirls compared with how fast it flows inward). That derivation is still open.

The offset is testable. It belongs to the medium's geometry rather than to any mass, so it should stay the same across independent surveys of different depths. Published comparisons of the Local Group's motion with the gravity dipole of nearby galaxies find an offset of roughly 12 to 21 degrees (Erdoğdu et al. 2006). RSI reads that offset as the pitch of the spiraling Inhale.