Sunday, April 21, 2013

NASA's Wind mission encounters 'SLAMS' waves

Dear Artists, Dreamers, Planners, Astronauts, and all fields of Astro-geeks,


Welcome to the future with "SLAMS' waves.

"I stumbled on some cool squiggles in the data," says Lynn Wilson, who is deputy project scientist for Wind at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "They turned out to be a special kind of magnetic pulsations called short large amplitude magnetic structures, which we call SLAMS for short."
Full article at:
NASA's Wind mission encounters 'SLAMS' waves

This magnetic phenomenon reminded me of another fascinating little discussed phenomenon:

Pacemaker researchers described bioelectric waves that interfere with normal heartbeats.
Research shows that many dangerous arrhythmias occur due to “reentrant waves” — in effect, a mistimed electrical pulse that interferes with the normal pattern and loops through the heart-muscle fibers at high frequency. These rapid arrhythmic pulses tend to circle back on themselves, like a dog chasing its tail, and form spiral waves. With a single spiral wave, the resulting fast heartbeat is known as tachycardia.
Full Article at:
 http://www.psc.edu/science/fenton.html

As the data collects, I wonder if scientists are thinking about ancient spiral petroglyphs and the Fibonacci sequence?

Logan is working on a new web site/community forum! We are accepting photos of permaculture, arcology, or natural structure and spirals to be shown on the site.