APOD: 2008 May 17 - Logarithmic Spirals Not only do spiral galaxies look like hurricanes, they also look like soap bubbles going down a drain and any number of other swirly things. It makes you wonder what’s really going on. Is our universe just an elementary particle in a universe “higher” up? That seems so organized, and yet so scary, that it’s just the way things should be.

APOD: 2008 May 17 - Logarithmic Spirals

Not only do spiral galaxies look like hurricanes, they also look like soap bubbles going down a drain and any number of other swirly things. It makes you wonder what’s really going on. Is our universe just an elementary particle in a universe “higher” up? That seems so organized, and yet so scary, that it’s just the way things should be.