{"id":39987,"date":"2025-01-07T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=39987"},"modified":"2025-01-16T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:27:16","slug":"a-vortex-of-spacetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2025\/01\/07\/a-vortex-of-spacetime\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vortex of Spacetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-0.mp3\"> A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-0.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-0.mp4\"> A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-0.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-I.mp3\"> A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-I.mp4\"> A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-Interlude.mp3\"> A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-Interlude.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-intro.mp3\"> A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-intro.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nCosmos dragon<br \/>\n(Frame dragging)<br \/>\nA vortex of spacetime<br \/>\n(A spinning black hole)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nIf you come &#8217;round<br \/>\n(You&#8217;ll turn around)<br \/>\nMy axis acts<br \/>\n(Rotational facts)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nCosmos dragon<br \/>\n(Frame dragging)<br \/>\nA vortex of spacetime (time)<br \/>\nA spinning black hole<br \/>\n(Swallows you whole)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nTo rotate<br \/>\n(Is your fate)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll spin you round<br \/>\n(Till never&#8217;s found)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nNow you&#8217;ve come &#8217;round<br \/>\n(I see you&#8217;ve found)<br \/>\nMy axis spin wins<br \/>\n(We&#8217;re zombie twins)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nCosmos dragon<br \/>\n(Frame dragging)<br \/>\nA vortex of spacetime (time)<br \/>\nA spinning black hole<br \/>\n(Swallows you whole)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nTo rotate<br \/>\n(Is your fate)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll spin you round<br \/>\n(Till never&#8217;s found)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nCosmos dragon<br \/>\n(Frame dragging)<br \/>\nA vortex of spacetime (time)<br \/>\nA spinning black hole<br \/>\n(Swallows you whole)<\/p>\n<p>[Outro[<br \/>\nZombie twin<br \/>\n(Spin, spin, spin)<\/p>\n<p>A SCIENCE NOTE<br \/>\nA <strong>rotational vortex<\/strong> refers to a system in which matter or energy rotates around a central axis, and several phenomena can exhibit this behavior:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Planets and Stars<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>A planet like Earth spins on its axis, creating a rotational vortex in its atmosphere due to the Coriolis effect, which influences weather systems and ocean currents.<\/li>\n<li>Stars and planets form rotational vortices during their creation, as clouds of gas and dust collapse and spin due to conservation of angular momentum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Black Holes<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>A spinning black hole (Kerr black hole) creates a vortex of spacetime around it, called frame dragging, where nearby matter and energy are forced to rotate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fluids and Gases<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>In tornadoes and hurricanes, air spins around a low-pressure axis, creating a vortex.<\/li>\n<li>Water spiraling down a drain forms a rotational vortex due to angular momentum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Galaxies<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Spiral galaxies rotate around a central axis, forming a vast rotational vortex of stars, gas, and dust.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Subatomic Particles<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>In quantum mechanics, particles like electrons can have a property called spin, which is an intrinsic form of angular momentum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/tag\/swirl\/\">Swirl<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/Daniel\/\">Daniel<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/IX\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-0.mp3 A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-0.mp4 A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-I.mp3 A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-I.mp4 A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-Interlude.mp3 A-Vortex-of-Spacetime-intro.mp3 [Intro] Cosmos dragon (Frame dragging) A vortex of spacetime (A spinning black hole) [Verse 1] If you come &#8217;round (You&#8217;ll turn around) My axis acts (Rotational facts) [Chorus] Cosmos dragon (Frame dragging) A vortex of spacetime (time) A spinning black hole (Swallows you whole) [Bridge] To rotate (Is your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,9,14,3955],"tags":[546,563,4076],"class_list":["post-39987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-chaos-theory","category-daniel","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos","tag-swirl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40380,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39987\/revisions\/40380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}