Quote (russian @ Mar 7 2017 08:31pm)
The air is not moving at all relative to the Earth either. Relative to the Earth, the atmosphere is completely stationary and does not move (aside from local air currents, winds, etc). It works exactly like the air in an airplane, only it's kept in place by gravity instead of a hollow aluminum shell.
Does a hollow aluminum shell suck the air to to it or does it simply keep it relative by keeping it in a closed environment.
Thats a big difference.
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1193/why-does-the-atmosphere-rotate-along-with-the-earthQ: I was reading somewhere about a really cheap way of travelling: using balloons to get ourselves away from the surface of the earth. The idea held that because the earth rotates, we should be able to land in a different place after some time. As we all know, this doesn't happen.
Someone said that the reason why this doesn't happen is because the atmosphere (air, clouds etc.) also revolves around the earth (with the same angular velocity as the earth's rotation). Since we are also part of the atmosphere, our position doesn't change relatively.
Well, I'm not convinced with that answer. Why does the atmosphere rotate along with earth? Gravitational force is towards the centre of the earth, but I don't see how it's making the atmosphere rotate.
A: The atmosphere rotates along with the Earth for the same reason you do.
This is why you can simply go up in a hot air balloon for 4 hours and travel 4000 miles - because they say the atmosphere moves with the spin of the earth
But if the earth is spinning and the gravity is keeping all the air stuck to it and and Nasa can fly to Mars it is not a closed environment but planes can travel in any direction and never need to account for any difference in force - it is simply not possible.
This is where the circle jerk logic comes in and science just confuses you, you cant have it both ways, either the air is moving or its not - if the air is not moving but the earth is spinning, then we should travel 4000 miles in 4 hours in a balloon but if it is moving in a direction then airplane travel in the opposite direction would need to resist this force
This is why if you ask most people about this issue they just repeat what they are taught - that the air is relative and if you ask them does that mean its moving in a direction - there like "waaaaaaaaaaaaaa"?
The only reasonable logical answer to this is that the Earth doesn't move and once the light goes off in your head, everything will make sense.
This post was edited by card_sultan on Mar 8 2017 01:15am