At 09:24 am 31/10/2005 -0800, Jones wrote: > Is the shape of the cavitation bubble in > sonofusion always a torus or flattened-bubble? > > Is ball lightning "always" a torus, rather than a real sphere? > > Why are "smoke rings" so stable? > > Not sure.
Something to do with the bifurcation that occurs at transition from streamline to turbulent flow I suspect - or the hydraulic jump from high scale KE to pressure (i.e. low scale KE). >Like any good detective, Navajo or not (Joe Leaphorn) - > one should be very suspicious of coincidences. > The Navajos, BTW take the extreme view of nature and > the so-called "butterfly" effect... for them there > is NO coincidence in nature. Or supernature come to that. ;-) Frank
