Chapter 4
What provides catastrophe with such energy?
Introduction.
Geometrically geographical system of coordinates is faultless as position of a point is defined by breadth, a longitude and height above sea level, but from the point of view of physics this system is not so faultless, as rotation of the Earth is not considered. If the Earth did not rotate, the sea level would be positioned differently. In fact, if one untwists a bucket with water, suspended on a cord we shall not notice any changes of the form of a bucket whereas the form of water in a bucket changes dramatically. Rotation is rendered with very strong influence on the form of water, therefore the formulation "height above sea level", lulls our vigilance not allowing to see danger menacing us.
To our shame, we have forgotten the school physics. We shall return to days of our youth in the sixth class and we argue how the average pupil would began to argue:to mark contours of a relief of the Earth correctly, corresponding to various positions of a sea level, it is necessary to add mentally in world ocean water up to a mark х meters above sea level, measuring a level on the North Pole; and to plot resulting coastal line. If you honestly will do this work your "eyes will get on a forehead" because the latest sites of a land which will disappear under water will be not the Himalayas with the highest tops of the world, and Greenland (average height of 3400 meters, the greatest height of 3700 meters) and Antarctica (the average height of 2040 meters, the greatest height of 5140 meters).
Our academicians and simply great people of a science have forgot to perform simple ariphmetic operations. And unable to do ordinary school math they will be sincerely perplexed:
