St. Giles --
Your posts are irrelevant to my independent, common-sense argument. My argument has nothing to do with anyone else's argument, it's an A or B dilemma that ADMITS OF NO THIRD POSSIBILITY.
Choose one:
A) The atmosphere (and anything IN the atmosphere) follows the ground below it, due to gravity. Basically it's like all those air molecules were connected to the ground below with a solid, stiff, invisible rod. According to mainstream science, the Globe model, the Earth spins at 1,037 MPH. So the atmosphere would be travelling at that same speed to keep up with the ground beneath.
B) The atmosphere is NOT thus coupled to the earth below. The earth spins at 1,037 MPH, but the air kind of floats there independently instead.
Insurmountable Problems with A)
Travelling east to west should be impossible, since the air is moving so fast in the W-E direction. However, this impossibility has not been observed in reality.
And yes, it would be a 1,037 MPH wind. If you stand still and a 30 MPH wind blows on you, OR you stick your head outside of a car driving 30 MPH on a completely still day, the net effect is the SAME on your face. It's a 30 MPH wind.
It's not open for debate. It's simple logic. If you grant that 1. the Earth rotates 1,037 MPH and 2. the column of air above the earth is somehow bound to the ground below it, then it LOGICALLY CONCLUDES that THE AIR IS MOVING at 1,037 MPH in a counterclockwise direction, or West-to-East. There should be a HUGE difference in your relative travel speed with respect to the surface below, whether you go E-W or W-E. But this has not been observed.
Insurmountable problems with B)
If the air is NOT bound to the surface below it, then you should be able to hover a hot air balloon or helicopter in the air several hundred or thousand feet up -- the air is not bound to the ground below remember -- and wait for your destination to appear below you. However, this has not been observed. Ergo.