I was inspired to post this just this morning:
So, we've recently seen the awesome power of Hurricane Harvey in Houston - and we're about to see Hurricane Irma do a number on Florida.
In RET, hurricanes start off as north/south straight line winds that are turned into spinning circular storms as a result of the Coriolis Effect.
The Coriolis effect is a direct result of the shape of the Earth (a sphere) and the fact that it rotates. In the Northern hemisphere, hurricanes ALWAYS rotate counter-clockwise - and in the Southern hemisphere, they always rotate clockwise (for historical reasons they are often called "typhoons"...but typhoons are just clockwise/southern-hemisphere hurricanes).
Hurricanes/typhoons NEVER form at the equator and they happen to move towards it - they dissipate before they get there. That's because there is no coriolis force at the equator to hold a hurricane together.
If you don't know what the coriolis effect is - or why it relates to rotating spheres and not planes - read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force - which offers a pretty good description.
In FET...oh...there can be no Coriolis effect.
Conservation of linear momentum would cause any circular storm of such a large size to be dissipated by centrifugal force within a short amount of time, and without a coriolis force continually nudging it back into a circle - there could be no hurricanes or typhoons whatever.
Oh...but wait! I forgot to check the Wiki...on the page about (
https://wiki.tfes.org/The_Coriolis_Effect) it says "
The Wind Currents are put into gradual motion by the attraction of the Northern and Southern Celestial Systems, which are grinding against each other as gears at the equator line."...which is a total handwave.
There is no mention of these "celestial systems" anywhere else in the Wiki - no description of their motions - nothing at all - just this one sentence. This is neither proof nor demonstration - it's offered without evidence - it's just words thrown together.
However, the description of them "grinding" like "gears" on the equator line paints a pretty mental picture that might perhaps allow us to reconstruct what the heck the author was talking about.
It would suggest that any such rotation of a storm could only happen at the equator where these two systems meet. We imagine two counter-rotating "wheels" whipping up the wind between them.
But sadly, this has two major problems:
1) There are NEVER any hurricanes formed at the equator and they actually dissipate as they get close to it...which is because the coriolis force is at it's strongest in the tropics and vanishes entirely at the equator.
2) Those "wheels" would produce storms that ALWAYS rotate in one direction...but typhoons and hurricanes rotate in OPPOSITE directions.
So the pretty mental picture is clearly bullshit.
The Wiki makes ZERO other references to "celestial currents" - so this is an otherwise entirely undefined piece of terminology.
One could hazard a guess that they were talking about whatever it is that makes the stars swirl around the night sky - and since the FE'ers fondly believe that they can explain their motion with northern hemisphere stars rotating one way and southern hemisphere stars the other - you could see why they might imagine some "grinding" going on at the edges...but this effect stretches all the way down into the lower atmosphere, just above the oceans' surface? Then why doesn't it affect other things like airplanes? We know the coriolis force affects them - but this would cause them to spin around as the cross the equator...I've heard of no such effect - and as the author of flight simulators for the airlines and the military - I'm pretty sure they'd have demanded that I simulate it - as they do for the coriolis force.
In any case, the described motions of the stars in the two hemispheres would result in someone on the equator seeing half of the stars moving one way and the other half the other way...which CLEARLY doesn't happen because there are constellations that span the equatorial line of the sky that would be ripped apart by such motion...so the whole counter-rotating celestial current thing is nonsense.
So the Wiki's description is complete nonsense...so FE'ers have no coriolis force - and therefore no hurricanes.
Since there ARE hurricanes (and typhoons) - the Earth is Round.
QED.