At 03:17 pm 20/06/2006 -0500, Richard wrote: > Grimer wrote..
>> You want an exciting theory? What could be more >> exciting than a theory which stands conventional >> physics on its head and claims that materials are >> held together by external compressions, not by >> internal tensions - which claims that internal >> tensions, bonds and the like, are negations and >> no more real that the vacuum of the wifey's >> hoover. > Howdy Frank, > > Been reading John Herman's posts. curious. > > Exciting theory in action is the eyewall of a > hurricane of the size and scope of Katrina, > a near 200 MPH wind with an eyewall at one point > in excess of 40miles diameter. What " held" the > vertical eyewall in place???? Differential > pressure?? What pressure are we seeing since the > pressure absolute psia vs the psig can be > understood and measured by aircraft flying into > the storm. Frank has the explanation"nailed". > BETA.. NOT all the forces associated with > hurricanes are understood and BETA is understood. > The curious part of the study of the forces in > hurricane creation and dissapation is the > "strange" events taking place on the opposite > side of the earth in harmony with the vortex... > hmmm! > > Richard Ah well Richard, you have the advantage of being in close contact with phenomena at the bleeding edge and have not been lulled into a false sense of security by the dogmatic prescriptions which necessarily fill the text books. If students realised how little was really known, it would undermine confidence in their mentors. How then would they ever manage to jump through those academic hoops? If they all became disillusioned like Hotson, where would the next generation of hot fusion fodder come from. ;-) Frank
