If the Earth stopped spinning instantly, would we all go flying east at 600mph?

Question

An object in motion tends to stay in motion, blah blah blah.
The surface of the Earth is traveling at about 600mph and therefore so are we. If the Earth stopped instantaneously, would the tectonic plates and everything else on the surface go flying east?

Ok, i've redone the math. The Earth is indeed about 24,900 miles in circumference. So then the equater is travelling at about 1037.4mph. Which is about twice as fast as I thought it was. So would the effects be twice as bad as I thought? lol

Ok, let me just tackle a bit of Pearlswame's answer. You tried hard at making your answer sound intelligent.

First of all what is Earth? Well the Earth is that big ball of dirt we live on.

Does not “Earth stops spinning” means, “We too stopped spinning.”?
I won't make fun of your grammar, that speaks for itself. No "...Earth stops spinning.." does not imply that we too stopped spinning. That's why I said the Earth stopped spinning, not the Earth and evrything on it. You are not attached to the Earth and therefore would not be considered part of it.

Will not ‘the torque which stops the earth spinning’ stop spinning of the men on earth?
Que? "...of the men on earth?" Whatever.. No.. Because the theoretical question is that the earth stopped, and just the earth. If you remember from your geography lessons the tectonic plates 'float' on the surface of the earth. So even THEY aren't really part of the Earth..

Need to hurry, don't want to take up too much room...
Continuing...
Yes the mass of the earth would include all things living and not living.. But I didn't mention anything about the mass of the earth.

Therefore the question has to be understood that ‘the cessation of spinning of earth’ implies “the cessation of spinning of earth including all that belongs to earth”

EH,, No it doesn't. If that's what I was asking then that's what I would have asked. Nice try.

Yes, I guess to answer YOUR question we would need to know what effect "of spinning of earth" is. Again, not trying to make fun of your grammar, but it's difficult.

I know the gravitational pull of the earth is different from place to place.. but not just because of the spinning of the earth. I'll concede that it would be less at the equator due to centrifugal forces.
HOWEVER, I know that there are underwater mountains that have an effect on the gravitaional pull because of their size. U.S. Navy taught me that

And finally:
You say we must conclude that the earth would become spherical again. Idon't think so. It may be distorted so much that it stays like that. According to your logic, all the mountains would flatten and push up the valleys and the earth would become flat. I don't see that happening.

The next point to consider is the reference point. With respect to what the spinning has stopped (with respect to distant stars or with respect to Sun)?

Uh hem... I would venture to guess that "what the spinning has stopped" would be the freaking planning spinning on it's axis since that's what I asked. I thought it was pretty obvious and so far so did everyone else that answered the question.

Analyzing these things is not a difficult one but will take one’s time.

Not a difficult one what? And it did take my time. But not much.
Here's a suggestion, don't try putting a bunch of flowery words together to try and sound intelligent. Because I might conclude that it doesn't work

Answer 1

They're already flying East. That's why they can't stop. Let's just say for the sake of argument that anything attached to the surface of the Earth stops instantly. We do that and there are still interesting things to talk about.
Anything not attached in that case would go flying East. But how fast it went would depend on how close it is to the equator or the poles. If you were on the south pole or north pole, you would just stop slowly rotating. If you were near one of the poles, you would fly east, but not so fast. If you were in the continental U.S., you would go east somewhere around 600 - 700 mph depending on your latitude. If you were at the equator, you would fly east at around 1000mph.

Answer 2

The question is missing so many points.

Earth is suddenly stops its spinning. First of all what is Earth?
Are we not a part of earth?

Does not “Earth stops spinning” means, “We too stopped spinning.”?

Will not ‘the torque which stops the earth spinning’ stop spinning of the men on earth?

The mass of earth includes the masses on whole living and non living things in the earth.

Therefore the question has to be understood that ‘the cessation of spinning of earth’ implies “the cessation of spinning of earth including all that belongs to earth”

Before answering the question, we must know first what the effects of spinning of earth are.

But for spinning the earth would be spherical in shape; the earth is ellipsoidal in shape because of it spinning.

The gravitational pull or the weight differs from place to place because of the spinning of earth. The pull is the maximum at the poles because the linear speed of the place near the poles is much small compared the speed at the equator. It is the same reason that the weight is small at the equator.

Considering all these, if the earth stops spinning, we can conclude that the earth will become spherical again due to the gravitational pull and will be uniform in all places of earth. The weight will be the same through out the earth’s surface and will be equal to the maximum weight found in the poles.

The next point to consider is the reference point. With respect to what the spinning has stopped (with respect to distant stars or with respect to Sun)?

Analyzing these things is not a difficult one but will take one’s time.

Answer 3

Hmmm.. if the earth's crust suddenly stopped? or everything? air? core?

and what would stop the earth from spinning? and not stop US at the same time?

ok... hmmm.. and if it stopped... does this mean.. it stopped in space too? no revolving around it's axis.. no traveling around the sun.. no traveling around in orbit around the galaxy.. no.. etc.. hmmm.... we'd all disintegrate instantly from the massive hurricanes of 12000 miles/second winds ripping air off the earth into space.

or... the sun would stop moving across the sky.. and one side of the earth would freeze and the other side would boil.. hmmm... sure would be a different world

Answer 4

id say yes, but only to a certain degree. the closertothe impact site of whatever caused the earth to stop spining, the more the plates and us would fly. on the opposite side of the earth of the impact, everything would be crushed and flattened.

Answer 5

The earth cannot stop spinning instantly according to the rules of momentum.

Answer 6

it spins at about 1000 mph and is about 24000 miles around. we would not go flying away gravity would pull us back down for a very nasty stop

Answer 7

No a body in motion stays in motion . in other words my thought is we would be where we are , but it sure would hurt. because you would be hitting every thing to your east for some time. hmm other things to think on ......

Answer 8

I think there'd be a big crash of people on people and object on object, but have you forgotten the ocean?? I don't think we would fly I think we would drown.

Answer 9

sounds like it would. if you were standing on top of a car going 60mph and it suddenly stopped, what do you think would happen to you?

Answer 10

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