fleet1779, on 29 October 2011 - 07:26 PM, said:
Can the effects of friction and static electricity effect bodies on a galactic scale?
If the gravity source at the center of the galaxy is pulling matter in at such an accelerated rate then the friction must cause enormous energy to be released and electromagnetism would be on an uncomprehending scale, it must have some effect on even the outer reaches of the galaxy in question.
Has this effect been measured and can the electromagnetic forces in question help explain the speed of bodies in the far reaches of the galaxy?
Please answer in simple terms as I am at best a curious layman.
wow, I was just thinking about the same thing, and looking for a place to post a few questions about black holes.
Not exactly the same, but close?
Just a quick background on my train of thought , before I found your post.
I was thinking of a black hole as the center of a hurricane. I was like Hmm? Then the question, Does a black hole act like a hurricane? It has bands, like a Galaxy, and in the center not much going on.
The eye-wall, and the eye itself at the center, Like a black hole with a twist.
Naturally I asked myself the question, what is the difference between the two? The black hole has a high mass, wile the hurricanes center is very much the opposite.
Back to the drawing board, Wile the concentration of mass appears at the event horizon, and not at the center of the black hole for obvious reasons. Wile the hurricane eye wall has the highest wind speeds.
I asked another question. If the pressure at the center is the lowest pressure of the hurricane, then could the black hole in the center actually have a lower pressure also, compared to the event horizon?
Now another question unfolded, Is the black hole acting as a generator, generating waves that reach the outer bands of the galaxy? I thought possibly. Then I was like wow, the generating low pressure at the center is causing magnetic, and electrical disturbances through out the entire galaxy, all the way to the outer arms that are in rotation.
Finally I was like Gravity at the center of either system is using a centrifugal force to distribute gravity, or energy throughout the system. (Gravity as in, a vortex of magnetic particles flowing outwardly.
Electricity, and magnetism acts in the same manner perhaps, One inward force centrifugal, one outward centripetal. (Inward force= electrical component, outward force=magnetic.)
I just had to share. Could you please speculate on these questions, and add a reply.
This post has been edited by superball: 18 November 2011 - 03:01 AM
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