Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!mhuxj!mhuxr!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: A couple of old Physics puzzles Message-ID: <446@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 14:13:51 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxt.446 Posted: Wed Jan 2 14:13:51 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 04:25:00 EST References: <327@bonnie.UUCP> <47@rti-sel.UUCP> <333@bonnie.UUCP> <50@rti-sel.UUCP> <245@petrus.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 13 Rich Hammond writes: > The earth rotates and the water piles up on the edge of the Americas > on one side and pulls away on the other. The gaps at the Horn and the Why? This would only work if the rate of rotation were changing. (I guess it is, but not enough for the 10 ft. difference asserted.) >Artic ocean aren't close enough to Panama to reduce the difference completely, > so an imbalance persists (because of the earths rotation). If the > earth stopped rotating, I would expect the ocean levels to equalize. If the earth stopped rotating, I would expect the oceans to slop across the continents for awhile first. Very messy. Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j