This would cause the Foucault Pendulum to decline in the opposite way on a RE and on a FE on the Southern hemisphere.
What evidence is there showing that the Foucault Pendulum rotates backwards in the Southern Hemisphere?
Leon Foucault never left the Northern Hemisphere to verify his backwards swinging pendulum hypothesis.
If you are saying that there are not many pendula around the World and not to mention on the Southern Hemisphere, see this excerpt from the
list in Wikipedia’s article about the Foucault Pendulum (they are all in the Southern Hemisphere):
Africa- Giyani Science Centre, Giyani, Limpopo Province, South Africa
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Natural Science Museum, Albany Museum Complex, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Heritage Garden, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Central and South America- Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, [23], Buenos Aires, Argentin
- Museum of Science and Technology, Engineering School, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Australasia- University of New South Wales
- Questacon National Science Exhibition, Canberra
- Gravity Discovery Centre [24], Military Rd, Gingin, Western Australia
- School of Mathematics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- School of Physics, Bragg Building,University of Adelaide, North Terrace,South Australia
Antarctica- South Pole [25] - Length: 33 m, weight: 25 kg
Also, if you don’t believe these institutions, you can demonstrate the same effect by yourself with a much smaller apparatus – the gyroscope (invented by the same physicist), which works on pretty much the same principles.
I don’t intend to educate you further, but you must acknowledge the following line of thought:
1) If the Earth is rotating about its axis, then effects like the Foucault Pendulum and the precessing gyroscope must be observable everywhere on the Earth. You cannot disagree with this statement because it is a mathematical theorem derived by the laws of mechanics. Now, there are two choices:
a) You accept that somewhere on the Earth an experiment successfully demonstrating the Foucault effect was done.
b) You deny that a successful demonstration of the Foucault Experiment was ever made.
Now, if you choose option b), this will prove that the Earth is not rotating about its axis. Actually, when I first joined these forums, this was the common view between the FES, a fact that is also reflected in the FAQ. This was perhaps because none of you have ever heard of Foucault’s experiment before. This is also the problem with option b). You can be easily faced with the fact that such a pendulum existed as early as 1851 in Pantheon in Paris. So, the only option you have is option a). Until you find another explanation for this effect, you must accept the Earth is rotating.
2) If the Earth is indeed flat, then the Foucault experiment would give the same results on the Northern and the Southern Hemisphere. On the other hand, if the Earth is round, the Foucault experiment would give opposite directions of rotation of the pendulum’s plane of oscillation (clockwise on the Northern, which is like in Pantheon, and anticlockwise on the Southern Hemisphere). As before, there is nothing questionable about these deductions. Now is the crucial part:
a) The rotational directions are different.
b) The rotational directions are the same.
If option b) is what is observed, it would mean the EARTH IS NOT ROUND, and give support to your FE theory. But, perhaps you are more afraid of the option a) which would inevitably PROVE THAT THE FE MODEL OF THE EARTH IS NOT CORRECT. This is what is known as a CRUCIAL EXPERIMENT. The beauty of it is that it is local, that is you don’t need to measure great distances or use other astronomical effects. Put in another way, you needn’t get out of a room (one per hemisphere) and you can do it on a cloudy day 24/7.
So, this is a simple wager. Are you ready to accept it, Dr.Bishop and all the FE-ers.