"TeaTime" wrote in message



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Forgive me for sticking my two-pennorth in, but aren't all those phenomena
attributable to the Coriolis effect?

In other words the spin of the earth is moving all the things loose on
it?

It is attributed to it but only because the platitude is the only
suggestion that tickles the ears best. It's not verifiable and the
northern cyclones run the wrong way for that explanation (or is it the
other way around.)

In essence, the planet's rotation sets up this directional acceleration
effect, which is also thought responsible in part for the complex currents
in the Earth's core which give rise to the drifting magnetic poles (and the
occasional reversals thereof).

The ocean flow in the N Atlantic basin is some 30 million cubic metres
of water per second through the straights of Florida and 80 million
past Cape Hatteras. (According to the 1998 Encyclopedia Britannica.)

If Coriolis' "force" can do that then it must have the force to do it to
aircraft of insects or both?

And it should be noticeable to fairly mobile objects on the surface
-such
as us. Shouldn't it?


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