If you take any point, and rotate around that point, you will create a perfect circle, how a compass from a geometry set works . If there is a constant force, in this case velocity moving away from the center point, that perfect circle will become a perfect spiral. I'm afraid you are over complicating things as it is really quite basic.
Yes nature is amazing and this missile effect was certainly very pretty. But sorry to say that is all it is. It is also smoke coloured and dissolved or dissipated like smoke.
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Originally Posted by Lionhawk
[I]So I guess wave guide propagation isn't at work here. Instead we have a perfectly out of control rocket creating the most bizarre and almost perfect spiral shapes in three different fields of affect all at the same time. All this from one rocket? I have never seen a rocket that has ever gone so bad and create such a perfect set of effects before. Nor do I know anyone who has or would even claim to have.
Oh, I am sober!
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