Anti-matter

Originally posted by mikelom

An example of spin would be water going into a bath plug-hole - spins in different directions pending north or south of a line. In our universe everything spins in the same direction....... so where's the other bath line that does indeed level the spin? 😉

-m.[/b]

You are mistaken Mikelom. That is a myth.

edit - http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
The trick, I believe, is to get the Earth spinning very slightly in the opposite direction.

No, that is not the case. As I said, angular momentum is measured around a single point, not multiple points. You are suggesting that angular momentum of a wheel around a cars axle is balance by the earths opposite angular momentum around its centre. This is simply not the case.

An easy example to demonstrate the issue is if you put a space craft in space then fire a rocket at 90 degrees on the end of an arm. The spacecraft will start to spin. There is now angular momentum with no obvious countering angular momentum. The conservation is achieved by the rocket exhaust that is going in a straight line off into space. If that exhaust just happens to hit another spacecraft it may even cause that other spacecraft to spin in the same direction as the first (but around a different centre). There is no requirement at all that for every spacecraft spinning one way there must be something else spinning the other way.

Originally posted by Phil Hill
You are mistaken Mikelom. That is a myth.

edit - http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp

I think snopes is mything you!

Coriolis effect, do you know?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect

Water in a plug hole was a mere example, which given equal grounds, sink shape and so on, does occur. 😉

-m.

Originally posted by mikelom
I think snopes is mything you!
Coriolis effect, do you know?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect

From the wikipedia page:

In contrast to the above, water rotation in home bathrooms under normal circumstances is not related to the Coriolis effect or to the rotation of the earth, and no consistent difference in rotation direction between toilets in the northern and southern hemispheres can be observed.

Originally posted by twhitehead
From the wikipedia page:

In contrast to the above, water rotation in home bathrooms under normal circumstances is not related to the Coriolis effect or to the rotation of the earth, and no consistent difference in rotation direction between toilets in the northern and southern hemispheres can be observed.

Under normal conditions - .....

-m.

It doesn't say it isn't related anywhere, in fact explains why it isn't observed under those conditions... 😉