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rotation left. The details, however, are context-dependent: the Great Red Spot of Jupiter is a cyclone, for which soliton-type ideas have been offered up to explain its multi-century stability.

Topological defects were studied as early as the 1940's. More abstract examples arose in quantum field theory. The Skyrmion was proposed in the 1960's as a model of the nucleon

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