Turbulence and Fossil Turbulence lead to Life in the Universe
Abstract
Turbulence is defined as an eddy-like state of fluid motion where the inertial-vortex forces of the eddies are larger than all the other forces that tend to damp the eddies out. Fossil turbulence is a perturbation produced by turbulence that persists after the fluid ceases to be turbulent at the scale of the perturbation. Because vorticity is produced at small scales, turbulence must cascade from small scales to large, providing a consistent physical basis for Kolmogorovian universal similarity laws. Oceanic and astrophysical mixing and diffusion are dominated by fossil turbulence and fossil turbulent waves. Observations from space telescopes show turbulence and vorticity existed in the beginning of the universe and that their fossils persist. Fossils of big bang turbulence include spin and the dark matter of galaxies: clumps of ~ 1012 frozen hydrogen planets that make globular star clusters as seen by infrared and microwave space telescopes. When the planets were hot gas, they hosted the formation of life in a cosmic soup of hot- water oceans as they merged to form the first stars and chemicals. Because spontaneous life formation according to the standard cosmological model is virtually impossible, the existence of life falsifies the standard cosmological model.
- Publication:
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Journal of Cosmology
- Pub Date:
- March 2012
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1203.4437
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1203.4437
- Bibcode:
- 2012JCos...18.9751G
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Fluid Dynamics
- E-Print:
- 12 pages, 4 figures, Turbulent Mixing and beyond 2011, 21 - 28 August 2011, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy