why is everything spinning?

Question

i mean why an electron spins
why earth spins on its axis
y neutron spins
etc.................etc........................

Answer 1

Actually the above thought experiment is partially incorrect. If the Earth was the only one planet in the whole universe we could still tell it was spinning. Think Coriolis.

Answer 2

Spin occurs because everything is moving. Nothing ever stops moving.

If there was only one object in the universe, it would be spinning.

Consider 2 meteors in space, and nothing else, they are moving towards each other, and pass close by. They seem to be moving in a straight line. As they approach each other they pass near enough for their gravity to affect each other, and they turn If their velocity is correct, they will spin around each other. If they hit, and merge, the motion of their velocity is now a spin.

Now consider billions, trillions of meteors, they all hit, merge, their velocity becomes spin.

Spin exists because of attractive forces producing objects. When they merge, they always spin.

Answer 3

Thought experiment time:

Imagine a universe in which there is only one object. A lonely planet indeed.

Can it be said to be spinning? No. There is no way to know with nothing else to compare it with.

Now place another body in this thought universe. The two objects will fall toward one another and collide. But once I place a third body in the universe, its influence will cause the first two bodies to miss and begin the orbital dance. And they will influence it, and the game of everything orbiting everything comes into being.

It is the presence of all of the rest of the objects in the universe that cause any object in the universe to behave as it does.

This is known as Mach's principle.

Answer 4

Check the bottle you just drank from...does it say 'MILK' or 'JACK DANIELS'?

But seriously, spinning helps balance the forces applied on the object allowing for predictable behavior.

ex. in baseball, a fastball or curveball is thrown with a particular spin to make the ball either travel straight or curve in a particular direction. a knuckleball has little or not spin and it's path is far less predictable...making it much harder to hit, and to throw for strikes.

Answer 5

The spinning implies the universe has never been in a state of relative rest.

Answer 6

any objectwith a wieght has gravity which is concertrated on centre of it. And that Gravity makes that object move.

Answer 7

This is a most fundamental question. No answer yet.

Answer 8

gravity...maybe?