[Rudder]

The arms, particularly the upper arm, show material being held in a straight line until some point at which the field breaks down, after which material very quickly trails away and dissipates. Again, this is obvious and nobody should need to be Albert Einstein to comprehend it. There is no conceivable way gravity could do something like that.

From the picture it looks like centrifugal force is the culprit.

Is this too easy or what am I missing?

[medved]

The problem is that the further out from the center of something like that you get, the slower you'd expect things to be moving (assumingly only gravity and inertia); just like extending your arms slows you while spinning on figure skates while pulling your arms in allows you to spin faster. Thus, unless those spiral arms are being held rigidly together by something vastly stronger than gravity, they'd just get smeared into a sort of a blurry haze. In fact, you'd never see ANY sort of spiral arms, much less straight ones like you see here.

[AndyJackson]

Is this too easy or what am I missing?

What you are missing is that these folks are nuts in a straight descent from Lyndon LaRouche and the Fusion Energy Foundation. According to their view the reason that we have not discovered fusion is a British plot. You see we all follow Newtonian physics, which the British wanted us to do because they then had mastery of the necessary principals of military science and could maintain their empire. If we were instead inculcated into the principals of the Gottingen school of hydrodynamics fusion would be easy - but on the other hand, cannonballs would no longer be confined to their approximately parabolic arcs and the empire would fall.

Continuing the consipiracy started by Newton, the next Blue Blooded co-conspirator is James Clark Maxwell who invented the flawed British version of electromagnetism. If would had followed some other theory of Electro Magnetism we would no longer be trying to understand the dynamics of galaxies in terms of gravitation, however well it actually works for that purpose.

I kid you not.