Into a whirlpool?

Drawn into a whirlpool.

In life's whirlpool of days

It's like a crazy whirlpool.

It's been like riding down the side of a whirlpool.

And then, here's a beautiful composite of the Whirlpool Galaxy, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

A whirlpool, for Steve Grand, is a thing with just as much reality as a rock.

There! Like a whirlpool, if it blows the locusts they'll come down there and no other place!

Your encouraging whispers in my whirlpool of despair, holding me and heaving me to shores of sanity, to live again and to love again.

The source of the word gorgeous can be found in the Latin word, gurges, used by the Romans to describe a whirling, swirling whirlpool.

Centuries later, the philosopher Rene Descartes proposed that the universe was a series of whirlpools, which he called vortices, and that each star was at the center of a whirlpool.

Applications The phenomenon has been used to develop a new technique to separate red blood cells from blood plasma, to understand atmospheric pressure systems, and in the process of brewing beer to separate out coagulated trub in the whirlpool.

Gallery See also Whirlpool Galaxy References External links Astronomy Picture of the Day The Antennae Galaxies (10 22 1997) Astronomy Picture of the Day The Antennae (04 29 2011) Astronomy Picture of the Day The Antennae (02 12 2015) The Register Galactic prang fingered in star formation mystery ESA Hubble News Release ESA Hubble images of Antennae Galaxies Animations of galactic collision producing antennae structures Antennae Galaxies at Constellation Guide