The morphogenesis of tornadoes via non-Newtonian fluid motion

Abstract: The content discusses the complex formation of tornadoes, emphasising that traditional scientific explanations fail to account for the organised vortex structures observed. It critiques the notion of self-organisation in terms of randomly vibrating air molecules and highlights the importance of external forces, particularly electromagnetic fields from the sun, in tornado genesis. The author proposes that tornadoes arise from electromagnetic vortices that harness local energy, leading to rapid rotational motion. This perspective challenges conventional views, suggesting that existing energy is organised in ways not acknowledged by current scientific models, allowing for dynamic tornado behaviour influenced by electromagnetic phenomena.

Introduction

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We see a large volume of air organised into a complex and stable vortex structure, with concentric layers rotating at different speeds and sometimes in opposite directions. Helical structures are seen, with turbulent layers, a distinct cone at the Earth’s surface and centripetal accumulation of both energy and matter.

The first impression is that a complex structure such as this needs a global force field to organise it and a plentiful supply of local energy to fuel it. The air speeds up as it moves towards the centre which implies an input of energy from somewhere.

The classical explanation of randomly vibrating air molecules somehow self-organising and maintaining this shape with no external help is not credible from the outset.

Some classical views

How tornadoes form – UCAR center for science education
https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/storms/how-tornadoes-form

Tornadoes only form when a thunderstorm has a particular combination of winds.

This is interesting but is an observation rather than an explanation. Without the concept of an organising force field classical science is left attempting to explain the construction of a tornado structure as arising from its constituent parts i.e. a reductionist explanation.

This of course runs into the problems of how those constituent parts arose in the first place and how they interact to ‘self-organise’.

Air rising in a thunderstorm can begin to spin when it is affected by winds blowing it in different directions. It starts to rise and is pushed to the side by wind. It rises a bit more and is jostled again by wind moving in another direction. Winds moving in different speeds and directions at different altitudes cause the rising air to start spinning.

This, again, is a set of observations but with the language of causality added in to give the impression of an explanation.

The global structure has various identifiable features and those features are simply put into a list as some sort of explanation.

None of this explains the global organisation and is typical of many scientific theories that imagine that:

  • Order can emerge from chaos
  • Creation started with a big explosion
  • Human beings are the result of random mutations
  • Molecules can self-organise
  • Reality itself is rooted in random wave functions

The spinning air near the ground speeds up as it is drawn inward toward its axis of rotation. This happens in the same way that figure skaters spin faster when their arms are drawn in rather than when their arms are outstretched. This is called conservation of angular momentum. – UCAR

Ouch! Air speeds up seemingly all by itself and an inappropriate comparison with a figure skater is presented as an explanation. Conservation of angular momentum is a ‘principle’ which arises as the result of actual physical processes but is not the cause of them.

A figure skater is a ‘solid body’ at has a measurable moment of inertia which helps define angular momentum. She can change her moment of inertia by drawing in her arms and this changes her rotational speed in accordance with the principle of conservation of angular momentum. This option is not available to a tornado as it is not a solid body and has no willpower.

A figure skater rotates with solid-body rotation, meaning that the linear speed and hence kinetic energy of any part of her remains fixed for a fixed angular velocity. A tornado is completely different, with the surrounding air actually increasing in velocity as it moves centripetally. Individual molecules are gaining kinetic energy as they move towards the central ‘wall’ of the tornado, so the question arises as to where this energy comes from.

If molecules are solid entities which move largely independently of each other then any tendency to move in a circle is surely counteracted by centrifugal forces which will fling the molecules outwards thereby causing the dissipation of the vortex structure. What is required are centripetal forces to accelerate the molecules inwardly in order to maintain the overall vortex structure.

The analogy with the figure skater is completely inappropriate and therefore irrelevant.

If angular momentum is conserved then how does a tornado arise in the first place?

Wikipedia on tornado formation

Wikipedia gives an honest summary:

Meteorologists still do not know the exact mechanisms by which most tornadoes form – Wikipedia

Hypothesis

A continuous stream of energy emerges from the sun, enters our atmosphere and penetrates the ground to cause telluric currents. The energy is electromagnetic in nature and is causal in the physical formation of the tornado. Contrast this with mainstream opinion which asserts that it is the spinning activity of the tornado that is the cause of the electric currents and not the other way around.

Relationship with solar wind

Occurrence of tornado outbreaks influenced by solar wind–magnetosphere–ionosphere–atmosphere coupling – Paul Prikryl, Vojto Rušin
https://asr.copernicus.org/articles/22/19/2025/

Clearly something meaningful is happening to both tornadoes and the solar wind when our planet crosses the heliospheric current sheet (HCS).

Tornadoes are related to space weather somehow.

Relationship to planetary electrical currents

Electric currents accompanying tornado activity – M Brook
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17819546/

Measurements of the magnetic field and earth current in the vicinity of a tornado show large steplike deflections coincident with the touching down of the funnel. Calculations with a simple current model indicate that a minimum current of several hundred amperes must be postulated to account for the observed deflection in magnetic field. The existence of a steady current of 225 amperes for a period of about 10 minutes provides joule heat at the rate of approximately 10(10) joules per second, and involves a total charge transfer of 135,000 coulombs. The calculations imply that a tornado is electrically equivalent to several hundred isolated thunderstorm cells active simultaneously.

These are big electric currents and so we can ask where all the charge comes from, where all the energy needed to drive such charge comes from and why it seems to accumulate rather than dissipate.

Earth electricity: a review of mechanisms which cause telluric
currents in the lithosphere – Daniel S. Helman
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266971680_Earth_electricity_a_review_of_mechanisms_which_cause_telluric_currents_in_the_lithosphere

Telluric currents are natural electrical phenomena in the Earth or its bodies of water. The strongest electric currents are related to lightning phenomena or space weather.

So ask whether it is the telluric currents that are causing the space weather or the currents from space causing the currents in the ground.

Flux transfer events

Energy and matter are transferred from the sun to Earth in brief dynamic bursts (magnetic flux events) via electromagnetic filaments, also known as magnetic flux ropes. The ropes initially form at the Earth’s equator and then travel towards the winter pole.

There is said to be a great transfer of energy from sun to Earth in the winter months of the Northern hemisphere.

A flux transfer event (FTE) occurs when a magnetic portal opens in the Earth’s magnetosphere through which high-energy particles flow from the Sun. This connection, while previously thought to be permanent, has been found to be brief and very dynamic. – Wikipedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flux_Transfer_Event.jpg?uselang=en#Licensing

Magnetic flux ropes as a cause for tornadoes

Given the description and the artist’s impression above, magnetic flux events seem like a good candidate for the cause of tornadoes.

Two possibilities come to mind:

  1. A forcing field: The first idea is that a flux rope contains sufficient energy and sufficiently strong field forces to induce the formation of a tornado by ‘brute force’, charged particles in the atmosphere are dragged around by an electric or magnetic field and the whole tornado builds up from such movement.
  2. An organisational field: This idea is a little different and supposes that there is already a great deal of latent energy in the atmosphere and that all needs to happen for a tornado to form is that an external field should organise and release such latent energy in an appropriate pattern for the tornado to self-organise into the complex forms that we see.

The first option is not so straightforward as it sounds though, as electromagnetic fields tend to produce forces at right angles to their movement and it is not obvious how a spinning wind could be produced in such a manner.

The second option sounds more likely and is consistent with mechanisms proposed for other similar phenomena:

The sequestering of energy via the stirring of water

Gerald Pollack describes in his book The Fourth Phase of Water, an experiment whereby a glass of water is stirred and found to have a reduced temperature as a consequence.

Now if we agree that energy has been input to the system and that energy is conserved, then we must ask where that energy has disappeared to. Not in the form of heat, that is for sure.

Kinetic energy has been transformed to some other form of energy and apparently sequestered within the water in some unknown form

Conversely a further experiment from Gerald: (Pollack’s water engine) shows that an input of infrared light to a bowl of water leads to the spontaneous creation of an organised vortex flow within the liquid.

Hypothesis

Tornadoes are formed by an electromagnetic field which originates at the sun and serves to organise the particles within our atmosphere in such a way that they are able to harness local sequestered energy and thereby move in a powerful vortex structure. The global morphology of the tornado is determined by electromagnetic field forces.

We know that energy can be sequestered and can be transformed to kinetic motion under certain circumstances. We can suppose that it builds up over time in our atmosphere and is available for almost instantaneous transduction via the application of a suitable field.

Energy input may be in the form of infrared radiation as with the Pollack water engine or may arrive from space in the form of flux events which are said to transfer more energy in winter (tornado season) than summer.

The stored energy is of the form of electromagnetic vortices and as such will often find expression on highly structured clouds (see below).

If conditions are right and there is sufficient local energy sequestered, a tornado shape is organised and the air begins to rotate at great speed.

The centripetal movement of matter arises from electromagnetic forces and the predictability, or otherwise, of tornado genesis is a result of the stability and predictability of the magnetic flux events.

Once the tornado is organised it is sustained by powerful electromagnetic field forces which extend into the surface of the planet and are measurable as telluric currents. The appearance of energy seemingly from nowhere is created by the organisation of existing local but invisible energy in the form of fractal electromagnetic vortex structures.

We do not need the huge transfer of energy from one place to another that we might think as much of it is already in place simply waiting to be organised by a supervening field.

Electromagnetic field effects propagate at the speed of light and so tornado organisation is at the speed of light as opposed to the speed of sound. The component of the field that propagates is responsible for the alignment of the local field elements and it is this local energy which is responsible for the movement of the air. Physical effects therefore appear to propagate at the speed of light and without a visible acoustic wave as would be the case with kinetic transmission of energy. The motion can be said to be non-Newtonian.

The sudden switching of direction of a tornado or hurricane (whilst still preserving the structure) is easily understood as the change in behaviour of the overall morphogenic electric field which obeys the laws of electromagnetism and where structural changes propagate at the speed of light. There is no great force needed to ‘push’ a tornado in a different direction, rather the whole edifice moves under local energy and according to electromagnetic field instructions.

The unpredictability comes from the fact that the underlying laws here are those of electromagnetism but scientists are no doubt attempting to use the laws of kinetics, of mass and forces. Newton’s laws are, in a sense, violated, owing to the presence of the invisible sequestered energy which can come into operation at any time and cause apparently force free movement with no equal and opposite reaction.

Summary

Mainstream science either admits to ignorance as to the causes of tornadoes or comes up with confusing and contradictory explanations which try to invert cause and effect.

Evidence is presented here which suggests that tornadoes are the expression of electromagnetic vortices ultimately originating from the sun. These vortices organise existing accumulations of energy within the atmosphere to produce powerful whirlwinds.

The resulting motion is a newly described form of non-Newtonian motion which is invisible to current theoretical models.

This type of motion also provides explanations for: