vortices

noun

1. A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
2. Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.“2004: the consumer vortex that is East Hampton — The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38”
3. Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
4. A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.