text: given the coriolis thery, does that also apply with the universe and heavenly bodies?   the coriolis force is just a fictitious force that comes from trying to describe a rotating noninertial frame as an inertial frame (the centrifugal force is another one). anytime there is a rotating noninertial frame, the motion can be more easily analyzed using the coriolis paradigm. and of course, the universe is full of rotating noninertial frames; planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies, etc.