THE CORIOLIS FORCE AND MY POLE BEANS:
My Beanpoles After the deer and before the frost:
When I took Human Biology in college, I found out about the Coriolis Force. Why in Human Biology? With all the twists and turns of our inner workings, even our digestion is subject to the Coriolis force... so I was taught. Our professor's lectures were memorable in so many ways. He had a story for them all. When it came to this Force, it was of his dog loving to pop balloons, but then he'd eat them. If a dog swallows something that remains unchanged when defecated, one can determine which end of the stool came out first if you know that the Coriolis force is counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere. He'd have a balloon "party" with the dog the day before he had one of his classes come up to his back yard for a picnic and a quiz for guessing the direction of the dog's stools. That was the link with human biology and turning of the world... a force of nature. In Googling this force up, it didn't get into the intestinal, but quibbled about the direction water goes down the drain. It as been tested to go either way in sinks, but I believe it was in force when it came to my bean plants...
This morning when I got back from my walk with the dogs I wanted to take down my frostbitten bean plants. Last night when the temperature dipped to 22 degrees, zapping the leaves. I thought I'd take carefully take the poles down, and unwrap the tangled vines. When I took the first pole down, I noticed something I hadn't before. All the bean plants circled the pole from the right side of the pole, twisting up from that direction from bottom to top. When the plants first started growing, it looked haphazard to me... their tendrils just blindly searching for something to grow on. Little did I know that some Force was causing them to catch the bean pole on the right side, and twist on up from there once it blindly found the pole. The leaves quickly covered the main vine, and I hadn't noticed the look of them while taking the pole out of the soil. I thought unwrapping the vines would be a chore if I cared to keep them intact rather than to just tear them off the poles. However, it was an easy task, as they were so evenly wrapped it was as if someone with OCD had carefully wrapped them.
Well... for me the Coriolis force explains why the pole beans wrap themselves so nicely, but how did they find the pole? Now... if it had been Black Eyed-Peas, I could understand it. ;-)
My Beanpoles After the deer and before the frost:
When I took Human Biology in college, I found out about the Coriolis Force. Why in Human Biology? With all the twists and turns of our inner workings, even our digestion is subject to the Coriolis force... so I was taught. Our professor's lectures were memorable in so many ways. He had a story for them all. When it came to this Force, it was of his dog loving to pop balloons, but then he'd eat them. If a dog swallows something that remains unchanged when defecated, one can determine which end of the stool came out first if you know that the Coriolis force is counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere. He'd have a balloon "party" with the dog the day before he had one of his classes come up to his back yard for a picnic and a quiz for guessing the direction of the dog's stools. That was the link with human biology and turning of the world... a force of nature. In Googling this force up, it didn't get into the intestinal, but quibbled about the direction water goes down the drain. It as been tested to go either way in sinks, but I believe it was in force when it came to my bean plants...
This morning when I got back from my walk with the dogs I wanted to take down my frostbitten bean plants. Last night when the temperature dipped to 22 degrees, zapping the leaves. I thought I'd take carefully take the poles down, and unwrap the tangled vines. When I took the first pole down, I noticed something I hadn't before. All the bean plants circled the pole from the right side of the pole, twisting up from that direction from bottom to top. When the plants first started growing, it looked haphazard to me... their tendrils just blindly searching for something to grow on. Little did I know that some Force was causing them to catch the bean pole on the right side, and twist on up from there once it blindly found the pole. The leaves quickly covered the main vine, and I hadn't noticed the look of them while taking the pole out of the soil. I thought unwrapping the vines would be a chore if I cared to keep them intact rather than to just tear them off the poles. However, it was an easy task, as they were so evenly wrapped it was as if someone with OCD had carefully wrapped them.
Well... for me the Coriolis force explains why the pole beans wrap themselves so nicely, but how did they find the pole? Now... if it had been Black Eyed-Peas, I could understand it. ;-)
posted by Cranberry Jo @ 10/12/2009 07:21:00 PM
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