Fleetie wrote:
Sjouke Burry wrote:
I am not saying that there isn't an effect and the one known as the
Coriolis effect doesn't exist, just that it aught to be called
chirality the same way that all the other exhibitions of the effect are
called chirality.


From what I have read - and I am NOT knowledgeable in this - chirality
is not the same as spinning or spinning forces.

Chirality has to do with left- or right-handed things - like screw threads
and isomers of certain chiral molecules - like sucrose, for example.

And it's just a coincidence that all creation except the oceans exhibit
this effect IN THE SAME HAND.

If you want to know more, I refer you to a poster on sci.physics, who goes
by the name of "Uncle Al", Dr. Alan M. Schwartz. He is practically
obsessed with the subject and frequently held forth on it when I used
to read that group*. He's an "organiker" (an organic chemist) and he
_really_ knows his stuff.

He's a prick and a racist and really knows how to tell people to
Google; he is not interested in anything remotely resembling a
discussion. The purpose of Usenet is discussion.

When he can get his head around that idea, you will know he has been
able to remove it from his arse. (And the swelling will have gone down,
somewhat.)

With all due respect to Mike Tullet, IIRC the Encyclopaedia Britannica
avers the effect is not a force.

And a steam loc is a locomotive -or loco for short; they weigh
something in the region of 200 tons depending on the type. (With a full
load they can weigh a lot more of course. And are then known as trains.)