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nature's drain spinning faster as it tightens, hoarding momentum like a figure skater pulling in her arms
means A whirling mass of fluid or air—water, wind, or gas—that spins around a central axis, often pulling things inward toward its core.
from From Latin 'vortex,' a variant of 'vertex,' meaning a whirlpool or eddy, built on the verb 'vertere,' to turn. That same turning root spins through a surprising family of words—'vertigo,' 'convert,' 'versus,' even 'verse' (a line that turns at its end). English drew it straight from Latin in the 17th century, and it has been swirling ever since.
- angular momentum
- smaller radius means faster spin, always
- toilet myth
- Coriolis doesn't decide your flush direction
- low pressure
- the calm core is where everything plunges
- fire version
- flames can braid into spinning fire whirls
- galactic scale
- entire galaxies swirl as cosmic vortices
great red spot — jupiter's anticyclonic storm, at least 350 years old and 16,000 km wide
maelstrom — tidal whirlpool in the saltstraumen strait, norway, reaches speeds of 22 knots
tornado alley — region spanning oklahoma, kansas, and nebraska with highest tornado frequency in the us