Is there wind in space?

[Meem]

I thought about solar wind after I posted this. Thanks for the link, but that's more like a current as opposed to gusty winds.

Well, I suppose you could consider a solar flare "gusty" winds.

[sillysally]

The air is carried along with this and so is the airplane.

I mean like a new technology. It would have to work against the air. Haha, that would be funny if you jumped up and lost 15 miles! At some points we would have to walk really hard to prevent us from going backwards.

Basically, yes. You need to allow a difference of pressure to flow or equalize.

Doesn't there need to be an atmosphere? I see those spiral galaxies as being engulfed in a massive wind flow. Like when a star is born, all the wind lets loose and starts sucking in surrounding particles and planets are formed.

[sillysally]

Well, I suppose you could consider a solar flare "gusty" winds.

Yeah, and it does effect us here on earth too but we can't feel the force. I'm talking billion times hurricane force winds. Or spinning at 700 miles an hour, that's a strong wind force too.

[sillysally]

I guess it depends on where you consider the center of this rotation to be. If we used a few points in the galaxy to measure this velocity, it could be a lot faster than this.

From what I read on the google search, how fast is the earth spinning, it said the fastest point is at the equator and the slowest points are at the poles. But I think you are right, it might be more accurate if it was measured from a distant star or something in the galaxy. But we would have to know exactly how far it is. So for now I think measuring it with a satalite would be the closest to accurate, assuming that's how it's done.

But what I don't get is that the poles and equator spinning at different velocities. Would that make time totally different in these 2 places? The poles would be centuries behind, time wise, at the equator.

[Meem]

See, that's an odd thing though isn't it, about the equator and poles. Sailors have known for some time that there a large regions near the equator where there are no winds. It used to be a quite reasonable concern, but not so much anymore for obvious reason. Winds can get quite nasty at the poles with no "real" storm occurring, not the the case at the equator. Or at least, that's what a history professor of mine has been telling everyone in his class.

[SteveA]

I mean like a new technology. It would have to work against the air. Haha, that would be funny if you jumped up and lost 15 miles! At some points we would have to walk really hard to prevent us from going backwards.

This sounds a little like some technologies that people are working on to convert energy stored as heat into other types of energy.

That would definitely be something revolutionary if it became practical.

Doesn't there need to be an atmosphere? I see those spiral galaxies as being engulfed in a massive wind flow.

It might be that there is an equivalent of an atmosphere for a galaxy. It wouldn't be the same as a planetary atmosphere, but there are still particles and forces in common.

For example there is a "solar wind" from the Sun that emits ionized particles into space and these actually deliver a force away from the Sun to other objects.

Like when a star is born, all the wind lets loose and starts sucking in surrounding particles and planets are formed.

This formation is suppose to be due to gravity, but there's still a lot of unknowns regarding gravity.

[sillysally]

See, that's an odd thing though isn't it, about the equator and poles. Sailors have known for some time that there a large regions near the equator where there are no winds. It used to be a quite reasonable concern, but not so much anymore for obvious reason. Winds can get quite nasty at the poles with no "real" storm occurring, not the the case at the equator. Or at least, that's what a history professor of mine has been telling everyone in his class.

Hurricanes form around the equator, but I think they get stronger the further away they go. I never knew that about the poles, that's interesting. There were really bad winds from a hurricane last year and I live in the mideast, we lost power for days and it got messy outside. We didn't experience any storm during this blast of wind but I think the wind was around 60 miles per hour. Maybe, I can't remember how fast or what hurricane remnant it was.

[paradigm]

There is no wind in space because wind involves air and there is not air, other than that retained by planets through its interaction with the emission (gravitational) fields of planets.

If your interested in a paradigm (theory) that integrtes the disciplines of science, then you could have a look at the essay located at: http://members.westnet.com.au/paradigm/forever.pdf

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