A rotating Round Earth model predicts that bodies which move through the air will be appear to be deflected Eastwards or Westwards[1] in their path of movement due to the rotation of the earth. This effect has been termed the Coriolis Effect.
Coriolis Effect From The Flat Earth Wiki PageDiscussionView sourceHistory More... What links here Related changes Special pages Printable version Permanent link Page information A rotating Round Earth model predicts that bodies which move through the air will be appear to be deflected Eastwards or Westwards[1] in their path of movement due to the rotation of the earth. This effect has been termed the Coriolis Effect. The Coriolis Effect, however, appears to be a fictitious effect that is not, and has never been, properly demonstrated with experimental evidence. Its proponents are unable to show that this effect has ever been detected or that it is truly necessary to account for in various operations. The evidence for this effect appears to be based entirely on 'common knowledge', on how things 'should be', and by authors who make 'predictions'; but all articles and documents presented in favor of the "Coriolis Effect" are without reference to, or demonstration of, the critical and necessary experimental evidence to directly prove the matter. Contents 1 Origin of the Coriolis Effect 2 Artillery 2.1 U.S. Army Artillery Coriolis Table Example 2.2 Artillery Ballistics Not Accurate 3 Sharp Shooting 3.1 Sniping Manuals 3.2 Misleading References 4 Deflection of Falling Bodies 4.1 Setting Aside All Authority 4.1.1 Failed Experiments 4.2 Earth Not a Globe Chapter 4.3 Schlebusch Drop Plot 5 Torsion Balance Experiments 6 Water Currents 6.1 Laboratory Water Vortex Experiments 6.2 Shape of the Drain 6.3 Veritasium and Smarter Every Day Experiment 6.4 D. S. Parasnis 6.5 Large Scale Water Currents 7 Wind Currents 8 Addendum 8.1 See Also Origin of the Coriolis Effect In an article titled History of the Coriolis Force (Archive) the origin story of the "Coriolis Effect" is described: “ The first detailed study on a manifestation of the "Coriolis" force was made by Giovanni Borelli in the 1660s, when he considered the problem of falling bodies on a rotating Earth. In a theoretical analysis, he found that they will undergo a small eastward deflection during their fall. ” Artillery It has been alleged that the Coriolis Effect plays a part in the ballistic trajectory of artillery, and that artillerymen must account for it for accuracy. We are presented with military range tables for accounting for the Coriolis Effect, and so, it is suggested, the Coriolis Effect must be a real effect. U.S. Army Artillery Coriolis Table Example We are directed to Table H from the following document: The Production of Firing Tables for Cannon Artillery (1967) http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/826735.pdf (Archive) Pg. 103, Table H, Corrections to Range, in Meters, to Compensate for the Rotation of Earth: When the Coriolis Effect proponents are challenged on the accuracy or validity of this table, those proponents proclaim that if the table were incorrect then artillery and artillerymen would be routinely inaccurate and miss their targets, and how could that be the case? Artillery Ballistics Not Accurate From the introduction of the paper provided we read that military artillery, which is purported to require adjustments for the "Coriolis Effect," is indeed, routinely inaccurate. The first round generally misses its target. Only after missing a number of times, and then adjusting the alignment of the cannon to compensate, does the artilleryman hit his or her target. From the above 1967 artillery paper (Archive), the same document which was provided to us, we read in the introduction on p.10: “ Ideally, a firing table enables the artilleryman to solve his fire problem and to hit the target with the first round fired. In the present state of the art, this goal is seldom achieved, except coincidentally. The use of one or more forward observers, in conjunction with the use of a firing table, enables the artilleryman to adjust his fire and hit the target with the third or fourth round fired. ” In another artillery paper from 1973, we read a similar quote: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/909704.pdf (Archive) “ When today's field artillery firing tables are used with today's approved delivery techniques [as described in VM 6-401], accurate fire can be brought to bear on targets. Such a statement can only be made because today's approved delivery techniques recognize that many errors (both precision and bias errors) exist and those techniques arc designed to minimize these errors. The techniques are not designed to produce first round hits, nor does the statement above infer that such hits can be achieved. ” In 2016 a claimed expert named Guy Schuchman says that, despite GPS and modern improvements, the same problems exist today (Archive): “ It's extremely rare for the first round to hit the target. It's just too much data which not all of it can be measured in 100% accuracy and human errors are quite common: small offsets in calculating the coordinates of the target or the gun, small errors in calibration, humidity of the explosive propellant...