Posted by: Wade Hobbs, Jr. on: March 27, 2009
The following diagram shows two geometries. On the right is a schematic drawing of the spacetime around the sun. Notice that the sun’s gravity alters space somewhat. On the left is a schematic drawing of the spacetime around a black hole having mass of 2 billion times that of the sun (a Schwarzchild geometry). The [...]
Posted by: Wade Hobbs, Jr. on: March 27, 2009
(These articles were originally published on the Lycos network beginning on March 27, 2009, and transferred to WordPress about a month later.) Oceanic Whirlpools; Hurricanes; Tornados; bathtub whirlpools; eddies in rivers; Jupiter’s Red Spot; Two star systems where one star’s gravity is pulling in the other star; whirlpool galaxies that experience gravitational pull of [...]