I was watching cosmos and I was struck by the similitarity between galaxies and hurricains. Coud a galaxy be a sort of cosmic hurricain with the eye being a black hole. And if a hurricain needs an atmosphere to storm in, what is the galaxy storming in? maybe space is something! Look how long it took us to realize air exists. Also if two hurricains collided what would it look like? would it look like two galaxies? If so, would that be a clue to .... Has it ever happened? That would be a site!!!!!!
2006-10-04 07:37:50 · 5 answers · asked by olampyone 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Interesting connection.
2006-10-04 07:45:48 · answer #1 · answered by Yen 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They look the same because the physical laws are universal.
You might as well also compare water running down the sink plug hole. That spirals in exactly the same way.
I think you'll find that the galaxy revolves once in about 200 million years. Because the galaxy is so huge, that means any individual star near its perimeter is moving very fast. However, the angular velocity is very, very slow compared with a hurricane, so the galaxy can hardly be compared with a storm.
2006-10-04 08:17:01 · answer #2 · answered by nick s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, they both have loosly-connected mass centered around a central point, so it is a similar process at a very different scale.
The collision of either would be somewhat chaotic, so hard to pridict what it would look like besides jumbled.
2006-10-04 07:44:01 · answer #3 · answered by One Tuff piece of Schist 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
lots of galaxies have collided..Andromeda, our closet neighbor is on a collision course with the Milky Way now..Of course it is a billion or more years away but its a coming..the sky would look sooo cool
2006-10-04 07:46:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I have never tried to count the stars in a hurricane, but if I did I am sure to find out there aren't any.
2006-10-04 11:41:30 · answer #5 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋