The day after tomorrow (where will you be?)

CNN reported there is an expected high season for Hurricane (a.k.a Typhoon for those form in Pacific Ocean) for the east coast of US. It's quite ironic that the news appear before the release of one of the most sought-after sci-fi movie this year. In case you've never heard of TDAT, here is what the story about: because of the green house effect (or some other human-related anomaly), there occur tsunami in NY, tornado in LA, hail in XX or any disasters you can think of. Human face the problem of being destroy by nature AGAIN, and the fxxking US government will lead the human race to overcome this problem.......


Ok, I have gone too far away from the real topics of this entry. I assume all you know that Hurricane occurred in northern hemisphere will be in an anti-clockwise motion, while those appeared in southern hemisphere is clockwise, by the way, not long ago, a hurricane just attack Brazil.(why? try search "Coriolis force" in Yahoo, yes I am a Yahooholic, :) )

Similarly, some other phenomenon also experienced this symmetric effect. One of them is the so called water sink phenomenon. I came to know this by reading book (iirc, it's from "100000 why?" - shi wan ge wei sheme) saying that for those northern hemisphere sink, water drain out in an anti-clockwise fashion, and the vice versa in southern hemisphere. I've asked quite a lot of people about this and they just give me sxxt answer like, if you view from the north pole, earth is rotating anti-clockwise, if you view from the south pole, earth is rotating clockwise, or someone just said, oh really? I didn't realize, is that true?

Driven by his inborn curiosity of the nature, Richard did a research on it and publish it on his first homepage in 1996/1997, hosted in http://www.chevalier.net/~sia (however, it's gone and perhaps you can get it back from the Wayback machine if you are lucky. He tries to confirm it with every friends that he has met who come from the southern hemisphere (e.g. Australia, Brazil), but none of them can tell whether the direction is really clockwise or not.

At the end of 2003, his friend, Jason Miu attended a conference in Australia, Jason was asked to take a video for Richard to show the direction. Surprisingly, the direction is anti-clockwise!!!!!!! It is not sure whether this result is due to the intrinsic force applied when water drain away from the toilet (yes, it's toilet, the video is a piece of sxxt in a toilet and water drains away, and that is used as an indicator). He was shocked, is the book (100000 why?) creating a hoax? Anyway, he will continue to pursue this problem which he started since 1990.

Somehow, life seems to be destined, he has been searching for the answer for 14 years and still not satisfied, what is the motivation driving him to pursue on this problem? No one knows. Someone said that before every mathematicians born to the world, they were given a look at one page of the holy book kept by the God, and the rest of their life is to reconstruct this page back. Perhaps the previous life of Richard is water, always being drain to the sink, that why he spend so much effort in his life in this problem. :)