Three Models of Sub-Atomic Storms

Three Models of Sub-Atomic Storms

If the sub-atomic world can mimic the macro-world, then there are three models of storms that come to mind. These are:

The hurricane model - see The Hurricane Analogy to the un-atom for further details.
The tornado model - This is a variant of the hurricane model, only smaller and more intense.
The smoke ring model - see The Toroid Analogy for the un-atom for further details.

These waves may require an energy differential to drive them, or may be a soliton, which does not. From wikipedia, a soliton can be defined as:

A single definition of a soliton is difficult to procure. Drazin and Johnson (1989) ascribe 3 properties to solitons:

They are of permanent form;
They are localized within a region;
They can interact with other solitons, and emerge from the collision unchanged, except for a phase shift.

See solitons, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_bore and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitons.

See also http://www.ams.org/online_bks/mmono140/ or here if unavailable.

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