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Natural Spirals

This is an interesting diptych:

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4 Responses to “Natural Spirals”

  1. Gravatar joshua Says:

    that is cool

  2. Gravatar xangoir Says:

    diptych? new term for me, I had to look up that word. thanks.

    Both the above are examples of differential rotation. Layers of our sun also rotate differentially.
    But it is really quite complicated on how this works on either scale (galaxy or a large storm system on our tiny planet).

    http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=what-process-creates-and

  3. Gravatar Nat Says:

    My wife’s been growin’ these. Blow’s my freakin mind:

  4. Gravatar Nat Says:

    Oops: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/91/271662746_735bc5c077.jpg?v=0

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