2006-08-07 13:11:34 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I guess it would depend on how you levitated.
If you generated an anti-garvity feild you probably would move with the earth, as the feild you generated would be pushing against and moving with the earth.
But if you somehow rendered yourself immune to gravity the earth would rotate below you.
Now if you levitated by using a bigger mass to offset the gravity of the earth you may rotate with that mass....
2006-08-07 13:18:18 · answer #1 · answered by heather k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on the basis of your levitation. For example a magnetic based levitation would result in you still moving with the earth. A levitation based on the suspension of gravity would result in you initially moving at the same rate as the world based on inertia but later slowing down due to wind resistance. If you could suspend gravity and cancel your inertia the earth would spin under you and most likely into you or away from you because of the wobble. Not to mention you would probably be smacked by some structure very hard.
2006-08-07 13:21:29 · answer #2 · answered by levindis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A hovercraft stays in one point above the ground but then it moves with the earth because it has momentum, to say nothing of the fact that they usually are controlled by a driver. If you could magically levitate and just fix your body into one place, then yes the earth (as well as the air) would race beneath you (at roughly 1000 mph if you were levitating above the equator).
2006-08-07 13:19:12 · answer #3 · answered by Eric G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends. If you were on the side of Earth that the planet was moving toward in its orbit around the sun, yes it would. But if you were on a different side and you just levitated, well think about it. What if you just jumped? ;)
2006-08-10 18:34:21 · answer #4 · answered by definitivamente06 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends. Its like asking "if I jumped, would the earth move below me?" It is already moving, so yes. However, since you are still within the earths gravity, you are still in one place.
2006-08-07 13:40:05 · answer #5 · answered by iam"A"godofsheep 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes if you are outside the gravitational field of the earth but if you are not you will move with the earth.
2006-08-07 13:27:21 · answer #6 · answered by meno25 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes my geografy teacher told me that if you take off with a helicopter from malta a small island under sicily for an hour you will land in spain but you have to go up a few kilometers not a few centimeters
2006-08-07 20:38:53 · answer #7 · answered by karrottu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If moves beneath you already.
2006-08-07 13:16:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no your still are in the atmosphere so you move with it
2006-08-07 13:26:03 · answer #9 · answered by jollyman 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋