I could never wrap my head around the “coriolis force” then 6–7 years ago when I was learning about weather systems on Earth, and now I understand why: it is complete nonsense. The circular currents, that align perpendicularly to the Earths’ magnetic field, are electrical currents.

The ideas behind the Coriolis force predate those that describe electromagnetism, and so just like Newtons’ law of universal gravity was a proto-science that described Coulomb law of electromagnetic attraction, so too was the Coriolis force a proto-science, that predated the idea of Lorentz forces, the electromagnetic force F on the charged particle, , and modelled it as a product of mass rather than charge, .

Electromagnetic attraction and why you fall to Earth

In the presence of magnetic fields, non-magnetic material magnetize, and its electrons and protons are pulled to the positive pole and the negative pole respectively, the material itself becomes a magnet, which is why a compass needle aligns itself in direction of the magnetic field as well as being pulled with a net downward movement.

All magnets have a magnetic field, an area around a magnet where its magnetism affects other objects. Stronger magnets can generally attract magnetic materials from a farther distance than weaker magnets.

The magnet in the video below has a magnetic field with a length of 60 cm.

The objects begin to fall towards the magnet, when they enter the magnetic field of magnet. Like how a magnetic needle rotates and orients itself to Earths’ magnetic field, the protons of the object are pulled towards the negative pole, and the electrons towards the positive pole, and the object as a whole has a net movement downwards.