by nstahl » Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:12 am
As I understand it there are competing hypotheses about the "waterfall" itself, one holding that it's a shock wave, which presumably would over time manifest itself more toward the top and right of where we see it now, and the other hypothesis holding that it's a jet, likely moving out from the upper left end. For what extremely little it's worth, my intuition is claiming it could concieve of the former case, with the non-intuitive shape perhaps due to different materials the wave passed through in the upper part versus the lower part causing slower or faster progress. But my intuition is having a real tough time explaining a jet with a bent shape like that one.
As I understand it there are competing hypotheses about the "waterfall" itself, one holding that it's a shock wave, which presumably would over time manifest itself more toward the top and right of where we see it now, and the other hypothesis holding that it's a jet, likely moving out from the upper left end. For what extremely little it's worth, my intuition is claiming it could concieve of the former case, with the non-intuitive shape perhaps due to different materials the wave passed through in the upper part versus the lower part causing slower or faster progress. But my intuition is having a real tough time explaining a jet with a bent shape like that one.