LetTErCoX

Top physicist and former synth-stabber Professor Brian Cox answers YOUR scientific questions.

Dear Professor Cox, DESPITE sitting centrally on the toilet seat, every time I take a shit there is heavy foulage on the left hand side of the pan. Is this something to do with the earth’s rotation? Dick Foreskinsythe, Skye Prof Cox says… It is indeed, Dick. At latitude 57N, the velocity of rotation of the earth in Skye is 912km/hr or 253m/s. This means when you go for a shit, whilst the bum cigar comes out at a certain speed vertically downwards, it is also subject to a force acting on it at 90? caused by the earth’s rotation. The direction the copper bolt comes out at is therefore the resultant of these two vector forces. If you want to prove it to yourself, simply buy a ticket to anywhere…

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Viz (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2023

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