Re: "black holes" VS HURRICANES

From: crynwulf (lyttlec_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 01:11:22 GMT

MorituriMax wrote:

> rem60304@aol.com wrote:
>> Astro photographs of spiral galaxies look a lot like
>> satellite photographs of HURRICANES. How much mass is at the
>> center of a hurricane? Not much! The pressure and density
>> inside the eye of a hurricane are MUCH LESS than they are
>> outside the eye.
>
> I seriously doubt that Stephen Hawking and his associates base all their
> scientific theories on information gained by watching the Weather Channel
> one weekend.
>
> One also sees on some sci-fi shows where the camera zooms out of the solar
> system, further and further out into space (movie contact, sagan), then
> eventually pulls back out of the eye of the main character. Can one then,
> using your logic, assume that the universe is merely a speck in someones
> eye in another universe?
>
> Geesh..
It is an interesting observation that the equations which describe a black
hole are very similar to those that describe a hurricane. I've often
thought that one problem with weather prediction is that weather is more
complex than a black hole, but meterologist try to use simpler equations. 

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