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Published on: VG

1941

The great Russian mathematician Nikolai Kolmogorov discovered that, in the context of turbulence, the rotation speed of a vortex is proportional to the cube root of its diameter. This has cosmological consequences: after the first 300,000 years, the speed of sound decreases significantly, and some vortices begin to spin supersonically. This creates shock waves and irregular regions where the matter that will form galaxies can accumulate.