I think I figured out what makes the wind!

[MSTK]

Okay here it was I was playing with a string, and I decided to add two foam balls to it like nunchucks and be a ninja or something.

So anyways I got tired of being a ninja and then I hung the balls from a plank of wood so they hung about one inch from eachother. I started blowing air in between them, thinking that they would blow apart. But they did not! They went into eachother!

By now I was starting to freak out. If you blow between two objects suspended next to eachother, they are supposed to blow apart, right? But not here! They blew together! That's just weird. So I decided to investigate it.

What would make those two balls move together? It would obviously be some kind of pull. Something that I did to the air in between them that pulled them together. What did I do to the air? After a whole lot of wrong theories, I concluded that by blowing between then, I was moving the air away from there, so that there was no more air between them.

So it must have been the effect that if there is less air there, the balls go towards the place with no air. I decided to test that out that theory.

I got two airtight pouches. One I blew up as much as possible, and the other I sucked all the air out of. When I connected them, the air from one pouch went to the pouch with no air!

So that was my theory: Things always move to places where there is less air.

There I was, making a major breakthrough. I was going to publish it at the patent office and apply for the Nobel prize when a storm came in, wind started blowing around. Then I started to realize that wind is not a pushing, but a pulling, and that it was related to my experiment!

Yes, of course it was true! The air rushing between the two pouches in my experiment was wind!

I'm still trying to figure out what force in nature makes there less air, so that the air can move to that place. Obviously there is no giant being sucking the air like I did. Something had to be creating empty space for the wind to rush towards.

So I'll update you on that as soon as I figure it out

 

[Duddha]

Sorry, you're a few hundred years late on the discovery of this high/low pressure thing. I guess you'll have to build a time machine!

 

[WillJ]

I also have this sneaking suspicion that the force that makes apples falls from trees is the same force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun. Hmm...

 

[MSTK]

I also have this sneaking suspicion that the force that makes apples falls from trees is the same force that keeps planets in orbit around the sun. Hmm...

I don't understand. Are you saying that the planets fall towards the sun? Then why aren't we getting much closer?

 

[ainwood]

The effect that you saw when blowing between the balls is called the Bernoulli effect.

 

[Azadre]

I don't understand. Are you saying that the planets fall towards the sun? Then why aren't we getting much closer?

... does anyone here understand circles are different from lines?

 

[WillJ]

I don't understand. Are you saying that the planets fall towards the sun? Then why aren't we getting much closer?

Because this force is countered by the planets' momentum pushing them forward. The planets don't fall toward the sun, nor do they go straight out into space; instead, a comprimise is reached: an orbit. Kind of hard to explain it without a picture. [Note: If you couldn't tell already, this universal force I'm speaking of is gravity, and was theorized by Newton.]

At first I thought this thread was a joke, but if it's not, and you genuinely discovered this on your own, you're pretty damn smart.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Just like Newton and the apple, school children 500 years from will be tiold the story of how one day MSTK got tired of pretending to be a ninja and started blowing on balls.

 

[Perfection]

MSTK, your ideas are valid, but your neglecting one very important thing. It isn't the density of air, it's the pressure.

Pressure is basically density (of molecules) multiplied by temperature (In an absolute scale, such as Kelvin)

So what happens on earth is different parts of the planet get heated to different temperatures and so thier pressure changes these temperature differences create the pressure differences which create wind.

 

[Perfection]

I don't understand. Are you saying that the planets fall towards the sun? Then why aren't we getting much closer?

Have you ever been to say a science mesuem and seen those large funnels where you can roll balls or change down them. If you just let the ball go down them it will head straight down, but when you put it down the ramp it spins around and around and around until it eventually falls in. Orbits are like this, except there is no friction on the surface to slow it down so it can continue for an indefinite period of time.

 

[Double Barrel]

I'm working on this new concept of rapid, persistent chemical change that releases heat and light and is accompanied by flame, especially the exothermic oxidation of a combustible substance. I think I will call it "fire".

Wish me luck!

 

[Hundegesicht]

So it must have been the effect that if there is less air there, the balls go towards the place with no air.

That's diffusion for ya...

But you really just figured this out? I always thought of wind as being a rather straightforward concept.

 

[shadowdude]

Sorry, Bernoulli beat you to this discovery a long time ago. Its all in the difference between pressure. Air flows from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.

 

[Perfection]

That's diffusion for ya...

I wouldn't roll my eyes on the ideas of a 13 year old who uses expirimental knowledge coupled with logic to produce insight into the way the world works, and expressing it in a coherent manner. This kid's got the markings of a scientist.

But you really just figured this out? I always thought of wind as being a rather straightforward concept.

No way! This is but the tip of the iceberg that still leaves scientists baffled, especially things like climitological cycles and storm development!

 

[Ballazic]

This is kinda kool but not really.

 

[Mrogreturns]

I wonder if I could harness this effect to create a flying machine........

 

[Ramius75]

I applaud MSTK for sharing his knowledge and his observation. Reinventing the wheel isnt something to laugh at but i actually encourage it. I once used simple trigonometry to try to find the value of Pi.

Ramius

 

[bobgote]

Just like Newton and the apple, school children 500 years from will be tiold the story of how one day MSTK got tired of pretending to be a ninja and started blowing on balls.

and i also have a theory as to what makes wind, but it is markedly different...

 

[Perfection]

I applaud MSTK for sharing his knowledge and his observation. Reinventing the wheel isnt something to laugh at but i actually encourage it. I once used simple trigonometry to try to find the value of Pi.

Ramius

Would it be based off of an infinitely many sided regular polygon?

 

[cgannon64]

*sigh*

Everyone knows its trees sneezing.