vortices
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Swirling structures called vortices and electromagnetic waves create increasingly complex fluctuations, producing the turbulent conditions found throughout space.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
It also allows researchers to study how changing the size and shape of individual magnetic vortices affects their behavior.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
In effect, the steps acted like tiny rails, creating preferred pathways for quantum vortices to follow.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Using scanning tunneling microscopy, a technique capable of imaging surfaces at the atomic level, the researchers confirmed that the steps ran parallel to one another and directly observed vortices positioned along them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Hooke also did away with the vortices, introducing the idea of what we would now call ‘action at a distance’—gravity reaching out across empty space to tug on the Moon or the planets.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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