Chaos and Quantumlike Mechanics in Atmospheric Flows : A Superstring Theory for Supergravity

Abstract

The author has identified quantumlike mechanics in atmospheric flows with intrinsic nonlocal space-time connections manifested as the selfsimilar fractal geometry to the global cloud cover pattern concomitant with inverse power law form for power spectra of temporal fluctuations. Such long-range spatiotemporal correlations are generic to dynamical systems in nature and are recently identified as signatures of selforganized criticality, a field of study belonging to the newly emerging discipline of nonlinear dynamics and chaos. The author has presented a universal thory of chaos which postulates that spatial integration of enclosed small scale fluctuations result in the generation of a hierarchical scale invariant eddy continuum(network) with ordered two-way energy flow between the scales. The model concepts lead to the following results. (1) The eddy energy spectrum follows normal distribution characteristics,i.e.,the square of the eddy amplitude represents the probability density,a result which is observed in the subatomic dynamics of quantum systems. (2) Wave-particle duality is attributed to the bimodal (formation and dissipation) phenomenological form for manifestation of energy in the bidirectional energy flow intrinsic to eddy circulations,e.g., formation and dissipation respectively of clouds in updrafts and downdrafts of atmospheric eddies. (3) The nested continuum of eddy flow trajectories follow Kepler's third law of planetary motion. Therefore,inverse square law form for centripetal force, representing inertial or gravitational force is intrinsic to the hierarchical eddy continuum. The above model is analogous to a superstring model where manifestation of matter is visualised as vibrational modes in stringlike energy flow patterns.