what would happen if the world span faster?

Question

i guess im wondering what exteme events would happen, if at all.

ok it would seem the world is spinning slower, will it stop? what will happen as it gets slower?

could we live on a planet that did not spin?

Answer 1

Shorter day and shorter nights and that would be very, very scary as also the Earth could spin off orbit course and end up somewhere else.
The orbit would be a little faster and the moon might no longer exist as it would hit the Earth or be slung out into space.
The Earth will and shouldn't slow down as gravity will keep it going until the Earth explodes. Nor should the Earth lose axis span at all, unless gravity or gravational failure happens.
Earthquakes can force the Earth to be larger and then smaller, this also interferes with the speed, although it's like stopping a turning wheel, when you let go again it will continue spinning as normal, or spin the turning wheel to make it go faster, but it would and will slow down to normal speed.

Additonal details:

If the Earth stopped spinning we wouldn't lose gravity as gravity depends on the weight of object causing a gravity pocket "plugged plug hole effect and water hole effect of water passing through material".
The days would continue as spacetime is configured to work by space date as 24 hours would pass although days are only pin points of measurement to show the time, but time would continue as frequent. This is in physics and supports and supports that by time would evolve and days would move to a smaller or larger pinpoint of measurement, thus life span would stay the same but you would see more days and nights but you would live as long as astronomical time of both the universe and the Earth, an alternative to the day time measurement.

Answer 2

As the earth spins, we are affected by centrifugal forces. However the earths gravitational force overcomes this force. However if the earth span faster, the centrifugal force would increase. However what would happen would depend on how much faster the earth moved. For example if it increased a little, we would just feel lighter and all those worried about their weight would get a nice surprise when they weighed themselves next. But if the earth span too fast we would simply fall of the earth.

Answer 3

It depends on how gradual the rotation of the earth changed. If the earth went from a 24 hour day to a 23 hour day in one day there would be giant tidal waves traveling to the west and floading the continents.

The tsunami in Asia is believed to have "caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds, or 3 millionths of a second, faster and to tilt about an inch on its axis. "(quote from source below)

Not only would there be tidal waves, building would topple, people would be thrown through the air.

Also if the earth's rotation were to change it would also affect the moon's orbit around earth(due the to Earth-moon conservation of angular momentum) and the moon would start to rotate and the far-side of the moon would rotate into earth's view.

Another affect of speeding up the rotation of the earth would be weigh less on earth(especially near the equator) due to centripital force.

Answer 4

Yes the days would be shorter obviously!!! also we would weigh less as the centrifugal force would be greater, in fact if
a=v^2/r then if speed of earth = 460ms^-2 snd radius of earth = 12756/2 then centrifugal acceleration outwards due to gravity is 0.0336ms^-2 if speed doubled to 920 then force increases to 0.1356ms^-2 this means that the acceleration due to gravity would change from 9.81ms^-2 to 9.708ms-2 soo if someone had a mass on normal eartyh of 1000 newtons then on the faster rotating planet the person would weigh 989ms^-2 which is about 1% less. more importantly there would probably be other problems but they dont involve physics soo i dont know about them. .

Answer 5

Mother Nature is a delicate balance. The world spins at the rate it does because that is the optimal rate for life on earth. If it spun faster, the earth and seas would cease to be held on by gravitational forces and everything would be spun off into space, to drift and die.

Answer 6

if it went either faster or slower it would make affect the way things were done (nature wise) and slowly the animals would start to die (since they cannot adapt) and eventually this may lead to the extintion of the earths' life

also days/months/ect would either be slower (more hours in a day, days in a month/ect) or faster (less time than before)

Answer 7

If the world were to spin faster then out days would become shorter,

Answer 8

it used to spin faster it is slowing down but at such a slow rate we don't really notice it will take a long time to stop spinning, but millions of years ago it was spiining faster not a lot was different, except days were shorter

The Earth's spin is slowing down by about 1.5 - 2 milliseconds per century,

Answer 9

It would get warmer with friction between the ground and atmosphere/ windier and we'd all weigh less. If it spun really fast you could jump in London and land in New York. Cats and dogs would live together. Pigs may actually fly and Peace would break out in the middle east.

Answer 10

If the world spun faster and then it would stop immediately. We would go flying and die. What im trying to say is the earth is already moving fast.