shouldn’t vector momentum and centripetal force pull them apart and dissipate their force pretty quickly? It seems like a bathtub drain situation, but I don’t really understand that either, and the “drain” in this case would have to stop at the surface of the earth, right?
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Solar systems would fly apart too, if there wasn’t something constantly pulling the trajectories toward the center and thereby causing orbit circularization. With solar systems that center seeking force is gravity. In storms it’s low pressure. The eye of the storm has super low pressure that acts like a sun’s gravity, pulling the movement vectors inward and circularizing the vortex.
The drain is upside down. The sun heats air near the surface, the hot air is less dense, so it rises, air around this rising chunk comes in from the sides to replace it, and any rotation in that air pulled in from the sides speeds up because angular momentum is conserved.
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