Saturday, 27 December 2014

PHYSICS: The Vortex - Stretch the Mind - A little speculation never hurts.





Vortices are seen in nature, ranging from the bath plug drain to a hurricane and many places in between. They are a concentrator of energy, collecting it from across a wide area and bringing it into a very energetic point. A tornado is a graphic example of the ability of a vortex to collect energy over a large area or volume and bring it to a devastatingly powerful focus.

The vortex has a special geometry which could be described as a non-linear analogue of an implosion. It collects and concentrates energy. Our industrial science has, to date, relied upon the geometry of explosions to power our energy needs. This, in physics terms, means that we use the conversion of a potential energy to an energy of motion to power our machinery. An internal combustion engine converting the chemical energy of fuel to motion is an obvious example.

A vortex is also the geometry of a spiral galaxy, which is in fact a flow of mass from a wide volume to a small one. It is a flow of mass or a current of mass, which is concentrated by the vortex geometry to a point of higher energy and lower motion at the centre of the galaxy. So a galaxy is a gravitational vortex. The mass current may be the cause of the gravity field just as an electric current is the cause of the electric field.

Einstein's 'warp in space-time' as a description of gravity amounts to the same thing. It causes mass energy to spiral in toward another larger mass energy. A vortex (non linear implosion) returns motion to the state of energy, whereas an explosion converts energy to a state of motion. The two states of the same energy are interdependent and mathematically reciprocal. A simple example is the relationship between the potential and kinetic energy of a mass within a gravity field.

A vortex is perhaps the only geometry where every point in it is accelerating away from every other point, if the angular velocity and angular acceleration of matter are included in the consideration.
That is the same information obtained from the measure of red shift data of distant galaxies, which have an increasing velocity. When viewed with a linear mindset it is impossible to comprehend. It is possible that the geometry of the universe may be a vortex, just like a galaxy, but too big to be seen.

The vortex geometry could explain how the universe might return to the singularity (point energy) from whence the last 'big bang' started about 14 billion years ago. How long that cycle takes is an interesting, if largely irrelevant question.

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