> Bob Hughes wrote:
> > Trying to remember about twisting directions... I know it is commonly
> > thought that the northern and southern hemispheres of the planet have their
> > own direction but it's apparently just a random thing instead. I forget.
> > Something about no relation to weather that is influenced by earth rotation
> > instead.
>
Warp <war### [at] tag povray org> wrote:
> I wondered how long it would take for someone to bring this up.
>
> The rotation of the water has nothing to do with the rotation of
> the Earth or anything like that. It's purely a question of geometry
> of the sink, the pipes, initial water movement, etc.
Everything you ever knew about spinning water that ain't so:
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html
A similar fallacy leads some New-Agers to believe that the tides affect our
body fluid. It's sometimes scary all the things we take for granted that
are totally bogus. Here's a bunch:
http://tag.povray.org/povQandT/misconceptions.html
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