Friday, June 24, 2016

Living Inside Of A Fluid

Ever been swimming, or stared down at a lake? Well, let me tell you something. One day, I was outside at night, and it was incredibly dark. Then, a light emanated from the darkness, and my life became just a little brighter. And I could see the daily flow of dust. It seemed just like a cloud, or fog, invisible without the right kind of light source. Now...that was astounding. This dust could have traveled from the other side of the world, for goodness sake! How is there stuff just floating around, in an invisible substance or fluid? Yes, and something else that's incredibly astounding, is that we are not drowning. Why? Because even though the world contains far more water than air, we've got the ocean above us! And it is volatile. Initially, what I was talking about when I talked about the dust that floats everywhere, was the air. However, there is a deadly ocean above us. There are a few lucky people who are in the midst of this ocean. It's an ocean that's so immense, it's mind boggling. It's practically devoid of any light, as well as air. This is the cosmos. When we look down at water, there is a substance there, and it is deadly. Yet here we are in the atmosphere, and there is a deadly cosmos above. And were we to go there, we would then be looking down at an ocean of air, which is not deadly. What a conundrum! We don't notice that we live in an ocean of particles, except when there is something like fog or dust to indicate that there is a fluid environment everywhere. And where there's fog...we might as well be living inside of a hybrid fluid, one that's pure air, full of water. The ocean in which we live in, the atmosphere, is extremely dynamic, and the surface is volatile swirling at well over two hundred miles per hour. The highest reaches of our atmosphere... absorb immense amounts of highly energetic particles. Air rises and falls just like the water in the ocean, thousands of feet. Ironically, the bottom of this ocean is warmer than the rest of the air around the Earth. Enormous and diverse clouds of water vapor form here, from fog at ground level, to clouds that can attain a height well above 60,000 feet. Some of the tallest clouds can start out at about one thousand feet at the base, and can give off immense amounts of energy due to daytime heating, and upper atmospheric lightning, which can attain altitudes at least ten thousand feet higher than the tops of the clouds. Then we reach the stratosphere, at 100,000 feet. At an altitude of 120,000 feet, is where aurora start to erupt. The atmosphere at this altitude becomes full of particles when the solar energy starts to sweep across, and the air can attain extremely warm temperatures of at least one thousand degrees, due to a concoction of all kinds of radiation, which can travel at millions of miles per hour. This immense amount of heat, however, would not really effect a person, as the heat is diluted. No matter how fast you were to travel across the vacuum of space, you might not be affected at all, except for stray particles. It would be just like staying motionless in our atmosphere, as there would be no wind...you don't know that you're inside of a fluid!

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