2006-07-27 08:26:16 · 12 answers · asked by aggies_2011 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
you will have sunlight 6 months out of a year and total darkness the other 6 months. If you imagine and ball spinning around a center object... if the ball is face one direction only as it rotates around the center object, the side that is facing the center object is what is exposed to the sun. Not the same side is exposed to the sun all year round hence the 6 months at a time. The sunned side will over heat and get really hot and the night side will freeze 6 months out of the year. Since the extreme light are for 6 months and freezing cold for the other six month, all the plants will die and there will no longer be oxygen over time so all the animals will die too.
There will no longer be winds or weather patterns since the major wind flow and jet stream is due to the rotation of the earth. The ocean currents will stop for the same reason. And eventually we will all die for this reason too.
If the core however stop spinning too, we all dies since the spinning core produces earth's magnetic field which protects us from the suns solar rays. Without it, we will be fried in seconds.
And to answer all those people who believes that gravity is due to the rotation of the earth... you're wrong. Gravity is proportional to the product of your mass and the mass of the earth solved by the equation:
gravitation force = constant (Mass1) * (Mass2)/ r^2
You're thinking of centrifugal force which is very small when compared to gravity.
Also the flow of the liquid iron core is independent of the rotation of the earth. If the earth stops, it doesn't mean the core will stop too.
2006-07-27 08:33:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends on what stopped the earth from rotating.
I like Cecil Adam's figure, nothing except that we would weigh more (centrifugal force is countering some of the gravity).
The starryskies site gives a more detailed answer. While they mention that one side would then always be sunlit and the other always dark (think of Mercury), we have some convection that would sort of equalize things by our atmospheric rotation (which would likely look pretty screwy compared to now after a while.
If you go to the Biblical examples, Joshua 10:12-14 and 2 Kings 20:8-11, then nobody else noticed. That is as close as we are likely to see what would happen, short of another planet (ala Velicovsky) colliding or sweeping by.
2006-07-27 16:08:50 · answer #2 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the Earth was to stop spinning, the gravitational field created from the liquid iron core would cease to work and people would begin "floating"into space for the lack of gravity, and, the Earth would completely fall apart for lack of the field. in other words, the Earth would simply "fall apart" and all life upon it would cease to exist. That's just the elementary facts apart from getting into deeper details which require much mathimatical formula, too difficult to explain here. But I hope this answers your basic quesrtion.
2006-07-27 17:23:53 · answer #3 · answered by LARRY M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if it stopped spinning then the magnetic poles would dissapear.. (i think) as many people have said one half will be in complete sunlight the other darkness.... also if it stopped spinning it probably means you arent spinning around the sun either!! ... so it wud probably have stopped spining due to lack of gravity so people would float off into outer space and die due to lack or air! so yeh quite a bit wud happen if the earth stopped spinning!! lol
2006-07-27 16:44:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
something would be wrong with the tides because the moon is what keeps us spinning. If we had no moon you would see a drastic change in the currents and the water which covers almost all of the world.
2006-07-27 15:49:21 · answer #5 · answered by Advice 411 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Over time or suddenly? Over time, the gravitational pull would decrease due to lack of rotation, and when it stops, we all would float in zero-G. If we suddenly stop, as my science teacher so rudely reminded us, everything and everyone on earth would be flung into space due to inertia.
2006-07-27 17:25:51 · answer #6 · answered by matt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if it stopped immeditately than all people would fly of the air and fall of the earth . Next one earth-side will be night, the other side day.
from this several other things will happen but I am sure that you ca imagine what ....
2006-07-27 15:31:04 · answer #7 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I`ll stop the world and melt with you
2006-07-27 15:28:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of us will die. some species may survive and adapt to the new whether conditions.
2006-07-27 16:42:47 · answer #9 · answered by Dr M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One side would be burned to a crisp and the other side would be frozen.
2006-07-27 15:29:46 · answer #10 · answered by parshooter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋