To bring antennas into the discussion:
Many years ago when a grad student working in the vicinity of, and
eating at the same table with, Grote Reber, he noted that the bean plant
wound itself in the opposite direction in Tasmania than in the US. (We
never left the meat plate in his vicinity.) While constructing new
instrumentation to measure low frequency radiation from space (housed in
beautiful cabinets that he made) using an antenna with directivity
determined by the relative thinness of the ionosphere in Tasmania, he tended
bean plants that he caused to grow the wrong way.
He published papers on the subject in 1960 and 1964. As I recall, one
finding was that yields increased if beans were caused to do what they do
not want to do.

So, at least two things arise from this: plants can do different things
in the two hemispheres and the ionosphere is "different" in the two
hemispheres.

The like of Grote the world is not likely to see again. His ability to
see significance in well known things was awesome. It only he had had a
publicist, he would have received a Nobel prize.

73, Mac N8TT

--
J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A.
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It is a matter of scale.

The coriolis effect is weak and directly a function of distance.

Water in a sink is a tiny distance and the effect is miniscule.

On huge things like weather fronts, the coriolis effect is quite obvious.

Firing tables for long range artillery have corrections for the effect.


--
Jim Pennino

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