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Randroid Terminator wrote:
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 15:42:04 +0000 (UTC), "robert j. kolker"
wrote:


Randroid Terminator wrote:

But didn't you say that heat from the ocean was the defining factor in
hurricanes?


The rotary motion of the storms is from the Coriolis acceleration
produced by the rotation of the earth.



But didn't you say that heat from the ocean was the defining factor in
hurricanes?

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R.T.:

Heat? Probably. The properties of the materials, and their potentials
for change are also factors.

The recent hurricane that hit the Bahamas had a characteristic that was
clearly evident in the movies of them made from space photographs. The
hurricanes rotated clockwise.

The next hurricane out in the Atlantic displays the same characteristic.

The lower level inflow winds are known to travel counter-clockwise.
However it is evident that the higher lever outflow winds travel
radially and clockwise.

My thought is that the sum of the masses flowing in and out are zero,
That is, that the mass flowing out equals the mass flowing in.

I suspect that the net rotations of the inflow and outflow masses may
also be equal.

If so the coriolis effect may not be causal.

If the spiral inflow is true of galaxies, and if there is a radial
outflow of matter, is not the net rotation of a galaxy zero?

The application of the swirl pattern is not necessarily an explanation
of a causal principle.

Ralph Hertle