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To: SIer formerly known as Joe B. who wrote (521)3/4/2013 4:54:52 PM
From: ManyMoose   of 528
 
Those were fascinating videos. I never thought about it that way, but it makes perfect sense. My question now is: "Isn't this all a function of where you are standing when you observe planetary and system rotation? If you have a stationary platform you can see the vortex in action, but suppose you are on the surface of the sun? From that vantage you would again see the elliptical motion. If you stood on the earth at the bottom of a canyon you'd see nothing. If you are on the earth looking into space, everything rotates around you, and so forth. If you were on a spaceship intersecting the vortex at right angles, what would you see? In other words, what you see depends on where you are and what your own motion is.

So it's all relative after all.

The extension of the vortex concept into nature is perfectly understandable and explains why trees grew the way they do. I wondered that for years after lying underneath one on a ridgetop all night.

They grow in a vortex or spiral:

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