24. On a rotating Earth, west facing cannons would fire their cannon balls significantly further than east facing cannons
“If Earth and its atmosphere were constantly spinning eastwards over 1000 mph then North/South facing cannons should establish a control while East-firing cannonballs should fall significantly farther than all others while West-firing cannonballs should fall significantly closer. In actual fact, however, regardless of which direction cannons are fired, the distance covered is always the same.”
This is just a variation of proof 20, and again shows that Dubay does not understand relative motion.
I will explain this in very simple terms with a experiment that you can do yourself.
Now repeat the experiment while the train is stationary at a station. You will find that the result is exactly the same.
The point of this is that the dart will behave the same regardless of whether the train is still, travelling at 100 mph or 200mph. You cannot expect the movement of the Earth to affect the cannon balls any more than you can expect the movement of the train to affect the darts.
This means that the cannon ball experiment proves nothing.
The following video demonstrates relative motion. The point to take here is that a balloon that is released from a moving car does not move relative to the moving car. If it was instead thrown forward or backward it would move forward or backward relative to the moving car. In the same way a cannon ball fired East or West on a moving Earth moves relative to the moving Earth.
It follows that the distance travelled relative to the Earth would be the same regardless of the direction that it is fired.
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This is just a variation of proof 20, and again shows that Dubay does not understand relative motion.
I will explain this in very simple terms with a experiment that you can do yourself.
- Buy a kids dart gun.
- On a fast moving train fire one dart inside the carriage in the direction that the train is moving. Fire a second dart in the opposite direction.
- Measure the distance that the two darts travelled from you.
- Assuming that you fire the darts in the same way you will find that the darts both travelled the same distance from you.
- What you will not find is that the dart that you fired in the same direction of the train travelled a much shorter distance.
Now repeat the experiment while the train is stationary at a station. You will find that the result is exactly the same.
The point of this is that the dart will behave the same regardless of whether the train is still, travelling at 100 mph or 200mph. You cannot expect the movement of the Earth to affect the cannon balls any more than you can expect the movement of the train to affect the darts.
This means that the cannon ball experiment proves nothing.
The following video demonstrates relative motion. The point to take here is that a balloon that is released from a moving car does not move relative to the moving car. If it was instead thrown forward or backward it would move forward or backward relative to the moving car. In the same way a cannon ball fired East or West on a moving Earth moves relative to the moving Earth.
It follows that the distance travelled relative to the Earth would be the same regardless of the direction that it is fired.
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