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Many years ago, as a child, I remember reading about an experiment that was supposed to prove that the Earth rotates. The experiment involved a dish of water and small pieces of cork. A slit was cut in a piece of paper, and ground-up cork was allowed to fall through the slit onto the water. This resulted in the cork forming a line pattern on the water. Supposedly, as the Earth rotated, the cork would remain stationary in the water, causing the line to rotate over time.
As I recall, I never got this to work. Thinking about this now, it seems the experiment itself may be flawed. If this really worked, floating plants in a calm lake would also rotate with time. I know that some commonly known experiements (for example, the ability to balance an egg on its end during the equinox) are actually bogus. Is that true of this experiment as well?
Hodges
As I recall, I never got this to work. Thinking about this now, it seems the experiment itself may be flawed. If this really worked, floating plants in a calm lake would also rotate with time. I know that some commonly known experiements (for example, the ability to balance an egg on its end during the equinox) are actually bogus. Is that true of this experiment as well?
Hodges