The Coriolis Effect
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The βCoriolis Effectβ is an inertial force exhibited on an object that is moving in a given direction on a rotating body. Because the Earth rotates on its axis, circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
A common myth is that this effects which direction your sink will drain depending on which hemisphere you are in. This is not true as the βCoriolis Effectβ is simply too weak to effect such a small body of water. This would be true if you had a bath the size of the Atlantic ocean though!
So how does this work in our solar system? We can state that whilst you remain in our solar system it is possible to experience the βCoriolis Effectβ as it rotates. However, if you were to step away from our solar system, and place yourself at a point of zero acceleration, you would observe the planets rotating, but you would not observe the βCoriolis Effectβ. This is due to our solar system, as a disk, being 63 degrees misaligned from our galaxyβs core, and therefore does not impact on our solar system.
What about the universe? The universe doesnβt rotate, expanding in all directions. Within this universe physics teaches us that time travel in a forward direction is theoretically possible, but not into the past. What if the universe did indeed rotate? Well, that would be interesting, as our physics tell us that backward time travel would then be theoretically possible.
What interesting Sci-Fi plots and technologies do you think can be drawn from this natural inertial effect?
The βCoriolis Effectβ is an inertial force exhibited on an object that is moving in a given direction on a rotating body. Because the Earth rotates on its axis, circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
A common myth is that this effects which direction your sink will drain depending on which hemisphere you are in. This is not true as the βCoriolis Effectβ is simply too weak to effect such a small body of water. This would be true if you had a bath the size of the Atlantic ocean though!
So how does this work in our solar system? We can state that whilst you remain in our solar system it is possible to experience the βCoriolis Effectβ as it rotates. However, if you were to step away from our solar system, and place yourself at a point of zero acceleration, you would observe the planets rotating, but you would not observe the βCoriolis Effectβ. This is due to our solar system, as a disk, being 63 degrees misaligned from our galaxyβs core, and therefore does not impact on our solar system.
What about the universe? The universe doesnβt rotate, expanding in all directions. Within this universe physics teaches us that time travel in a forward direction is theoretically possible, but not into the past. What if the universe did indeed rotate? Well, that would be interesting, as our physics tell us that backward time travel would then be theoretically possible.
What interesting Sci-Fi plots and technologies do you think can be drawn from this natural inertial effect?
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