20), 21) and 22) are the same argument.
20)” If Earth were
truly constantly spinning Eastwards at over 1000mph, vertically-fired
cannonballs and other projectiles should fall significantly due west. In actual
fact, however, whenever this has been tested, vertically-fired cannonballs
shoot upwards an average of 14 seconds ascending, 14 seconds descending, and
fall back to the ground no more than 2 feet away from the cannon, often
directly back into the muzzle.”
21)” If the Earth were truly constantly spinning Eastwards at over 1000mph, helicopters and hot-air balloons should be able to simply hover over the surface of the Earth and wait for their destinations to come to them!”
22) “If Earth were
truly constantly spinning Eastwards at over 1000mph, during the Red Bull
stratosphere dive, Felix Baumgartner, spending 3 hours ascending over New
Mexico, should have landed 2500 miles West into the Pacific Ocean but instead
landed a few dozen miles East of the take-off point.”
Again, these three are really the same
arguments stated in different ways. And each version as a silly and clearly
testably wrong as the others.
The short answer is that the
cannonball and the helicopter and the parachutist are also rotating, along with
the Earth and the surrounding atmosphere. They are motionless relative to the
Earth, but still following the same path around the Earth. For instance, point
21 assumes that the somehow stops dead as son as it leaves the ground, when a
moment earlier it was rotating on the earth’s surface! Which is, frankly,
crazy!
If you don’t believe this, again, here is a way to test my argument
and Mr Dubay’s:
Next time you and a friend are on a speeding train or bus, sit on
opposite sides. Now try tossing a ball gently straight across the train for
your friend to catch.
Now, if Mr Dubay is right, the ball should shoot backwards at a sharp
angle, and your friend will miss it. After all, the train is moving much faster
forward than the ball is flying sideways across the carriage? Well, try it.
If I’m right, the ball will sails straight across the carriage at
right angles to the trains direction of motion. No flying backwards. And that
is what happens , of course. Why? Because the ball (and the air in the train) was already moving forward at 70 mph or
whatever speed the train is doing. Just like you, your friend and the other
passengers, you are stationary relative to the train around you, even though
the whole thing is speeding along.
If you don’t have a friend with you, you can still do the experiment.
Just stand sideways on and try jumping straight across the train; perhaps from
a left hand door to the opposite right hand one. Do you fly backwards, as Mr
Dubay implies you will? No, of course not. And it is the same with the
cannonballs and helicopter and parachutists in his examples.
In fact, if Dubay was right, you couldn’t even pass a cup of coffee to
your friend, without it slopping over the back of the cup.
Yet again, you don’t have to take my word, or ask one of those
scientists that Mr Dubay says are all conspiring against us. Try it for
yourself.
And like the other test I’ve
already described, you will find that Dubay scores nil points.
It's worse! Objects retain the same speed above the ground, but since they are farther away from the center of Earth, they have a greater circle to travel and would actually need *more* speed. What would you expect? That things falling from a large height are deflected *eastwards* ... well, what was this about Baumgartner again?
ReplyDeleteAnd there have been numerous experiments which agreed well with the predictions:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallexperimente_zum_Nachweis_der_Erdrotation