2006-06-21 21:29:30 · 17 answers · asked by gunship 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Okay, the obvious thing is that we would stop having the change of day and night. It would really screw up our weather. For instance, wind is created by the uneven heating of the earth. If one side were to get all the heat, that isn't quite uneven is it? Meaning no wind. meaning weather wouldn't travel. I don't know if that means one spot wouldn't get rain. Since, the whole water cycle is still going. At least on one side of the planet. Mainly, one side of the planet would stop working. (unless tht one side is were the deepest part of the oceans are, which is were animals and plants living off the heat and gases being expelled from inside the earth. those animals would still be alive.) The other side, would become over-heated.
However, gravity might still exist. I wasn't really aware until about 2 years ago, but gravity is still a theory. Why, well its b/c not all the scientists agree as to why gravity exists. one argument is that the mass of a planet bends the fabric of space which causes things to head to it. Kind of like setting a bowling ball on a bed. The reason why we're not all colliding with the sun is b/c we create our own dent. So, yes gravity might still exist, even if the planet stops spinning, b/c that migt not be the reason gravity exists. if you really want to learn about the theory that i was talking about. and possibly get a clearer view, is by reading Steven Hawkings Universe Inside A Nutshell.
2006-06-28 11:05:55 · answer #1 · answered by Brittany P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we would be in either perpetual day or perpetual night and the weather system would screw up with a warmed side of the earth and a frozen side opposite. The sea the night side would freeze up and so would the atmosphere it would be frozen to the ground as ice and most of our atmosphere the day side would go to the night side to replace the void of atmosphere on the night side and it too would freeze up also and the air would get very thin globally. Humans and most of life would die. If the earth stopped instantly unless by divine force the seas would tsunami all over the world and the the earth's crust would buckle due to the molten rock under the earth's crust swilling around a stationary crust - releasing volcanoes and earthquakes that would decimate every land and cause even more power to the tsunamis. Safest place to be for a while would be either very far up north or south where the rotational speed and energy is less than the equator but with the global catastrophe going on it would be a short lived comfort. Energy conservation states that energy can not be destroyed so the rotational energy of the earth would have to be converted into something else and boy what a whack. The rotational energy of the mass of the whole earth suddenly kinetically released. PLEASE NOTE: Gravity would remain unchanged as the earth's mass would still be the same. Gravity is not reliant on an objects spin or trajectory but on physical mass. We would still be pulled to the earth because we would be attracted to the physical matter it is made of.
2016-05-20 10:47:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A number of nasty things. First off the earth is slowing its rotation, one of the reasons clocks are adjusted every hundred years. The earths magnetic field is caused by the rotation of the molten core of the earth, which rotates faster than the planet by the way. Without the magnetic field we would be bombarded by cosmic rays and die from radiation exposure. If it would stop suddenly, which it can't, we would all of a sudden be moving at about 1500 mph over the surface of the earth. It would also mess with the weather, and the jet stream which is caused by temperature differences as the earth rotates, among other causes. Ever notice how the wind always picks up just as the sun sets ? Also gravity would not be changed, the mass of the planet would remain the same.
2006-06-21 21:38:20 · answer #3 · answered by Not Tellin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope it doesn't go floating off somewhere else in outter space otherwise we'd be screwed. If it stays at a standstill, one side of the planet will have sunlight all the time while the other will be in the dark all the time. This would cause a problem for crops, trees, and other natural things. Plus there wouldn't be any season changes.
2006-06-21 21:34:17 · answer #4 · answered by Marilyn Monroe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One side will be in the sun forever with a day lasting forever and the temperatures will be very high while on the dark side of the planet it will always be nighttime and the temperatures will be much colder. I doubt this will ever happen withnin the next 5 billion years wich is the estimated lifespan of our sun.
2006-06-22 20:26:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As soon as earth stops,every thing on earth's surface will be thrown in space at great force.{Earth rotate at very high speed}
U can read a story on this incidence -
'A miracle that changed the world'-By H.G.Wells
2006-06-21 23:40:00 · answer #6 · answered by Aashish G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The friction between the axis and the surrounding material will cease; the axis will fall out; Eden will result.
2006-06-21 21:36:06 · answer #7 · answered by Pup 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time to install really big batterys and if we put them in backwards the earth will rotate backwards and we will go back in time, See ya last week!
2006-06-21 23:31:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earth would go away from Sun or into Sun!.
In either case we would cease to exist.
2006-06-21 21:57:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
bad, weather would go all out of whack, seasons, not to mention the whole coriolius effect would no longer have an affect with weather. i'm no professional but i know it would be bad
2006-06-21 21:33:29 · answer #10 · answered by AzN 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋