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[Spiral structures such as galaxies, hurricanes, tornados, whirlpools and mollusk shells and cyclic motion such as waves and rotations abound in the physical universe in both abiotic inorganic matter and in the biosphere of living organisms. Examples of wave motion includes, to mention a few, ocean waves, sound waves, electromagnetic waves such as light, X-rays and gamma rays. The cyclic rotations include the orbiting of electrons around the nucleus of the atom; the orbiting of the Earth, the other planets, asteroids and comets around the sun; the orbiting of moons around their planets and the orbiting of stars around the center of their respective spiral galaxies. The range in size of these phenomena vary 140 light years across for our own Milky Way Galaxy to the wavelengths of gamma rays emitted by radioactive atoms that are less than 10−11 m. atom. A spiral galaxy can therefore be 10+26 times bigger than a gamma ray photon. The range in the time scale of rotations is just as vast. They vary from 225 million years for the sun to rotate around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, to 1 year for the earth to rotate around the sun and 24 h for it to rotate on its axis to the order of 10−16 s for the rotation of an electron around the nucleus of an atom and hence and ratio of the period of the Sun’s rotation about the center of the galaxy to the period of the electron’s rotation about the nucleus of the hydrogen atom is 225 years/10−16 s = 225 × 365.25 × 24 × 60 × 60/10−16, which is also approximately 10+26 (the same as the ration of the size of a galaxy and a gamma ray photon, which is an unexpected). There is a fantastic variation in both the scale of the size of cyclic phenomena as well as the period of their cycles.]
Published: May 7, 2022
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