VIVA LA REVOLUCION, COMPADRES !!

If the Coriolis Effect was part of your scientific education, you might as well save your time. Hold it. Stop. Don't go any further. You will never see any anomalies in the Coriolis beliefs (paradigm) which have been part of "normal science" since 1835. You won't see them-- because your mind will be incapable of any critical analysis.

Most of you are probably familiar with the work of Thomas Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions).

"...a law that cannot even be demonstrated to one group of scientists may occasionally seem intuitively obvious to another." (p150)
"That professionalism leads, on the one hand to an immense restriction of the scientist's vision and to a considerable resistance to paradigm change." (p 64)


I'll bet you never thought he was talking about you. Well here's a news flash: HE WAS.
He was-- if you have the Coriolis Paradigm burned into the hard drive of your brain. Once a paradigm takes root, it is part of YOU, part of your own sense of self-worth, your persona. It is a trusted tool you have relied on all your life. It is a permanent condition.

It took an "outsider" like myself to look at Coriolis and Foucault with an unbiased critical eye. Which reveals them both as incompetents. For ten years I have been trying to get ANYONE to take a fresh look at Coriolis' world. The results have been ENTIRELY as predicted by Dr. Kuhn.

"... the standard that distinguishes a real scientific solution from a mere metaphysical speculation, word game, or mathematical play. The normal-scientific tradition that emerges from a scientific revolution is not only incompatible but often actually incommensurable with that which has gone before." (p 103)

"The source of resistance is the assurance that the older paradigm will ultimately solve all its problems, that nature can be shoved into the box the paradigm provides." (p 151)

"...Max Planck, surveying his own career in his Scientific Autobiography, sadly remarked that a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." (p 151)

After ten years of struggling in vain, I am about ready to concede the truth of these words. Go to anyone you choose and attempt to open a critical discussion about Coriolis' extrapolations from the fact that Earth rotates. I can guarantee that 99.9999999999999% of the people will fall into one of two categories: 1) scientists who have believed Coriolis to be "normal science" for all their lives-- (and thus are pathologically unable to rethink it) , or 2) those who don't know Coriolis but who steadfastly believe that such complicated issues ought to be left to scientists who are already schooled in that speciality. (If you have a toothache you don't go off to dental school--you make an appointment with a dentist, for crying out loud.)

So in all probability I will not see any paradigm shift on Coriolis in my lifetime--or even any recognition of the obvious anomalies. All I can realistically hope is that I can leave a trail that some future generation of scientific thinkers might pick up.
Perhaps the Coriolis paradigm will be overhauled by my grandson's generation. Or perhaps it will be HIS grandson's. But it WILL happen. It is just a question of time.

Like the man said, "The truth will out".

This is a "message in a bottle", which I am tossing out into the current: WHY NOT RETHINK CORIOLIS??

Why Indeed