If so,what would happen?
Would we all fall backwards?
2006-09-01 04:42:20 · 10 answers · asked by MaryBeth 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
The 'falling backwards' was a joke.Sheez--lighten up!
2006-09-01 04:48:54 · update #1
Yes. As a matter of fact, it IS slowing down, very slowly, due to the tidal forces exerted upon it by the Moon.
If it were to slow down quite a bit suddenly, however, then yes, at least around the equator, the results would be quite catastrophic. Think of the biggest earthquake in history, happening almost all around the world, all at once...and maybe multiplied by about five or ten times as well. Also, any force that could change the Earth's rotation speed that much suddenly (it would most likely be a large rock hitting the Earth) would also send out its own shock waves that WOULD hit the areas closer to the poles.
2006-09-01 04:47:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The answer is yes. Here is a little tidbit that I read somewhere not too long ago in an article about the proposed space elevator. Apparently, sending the elevator into space will actually slow the earth down a tiny tiny bit, so tiny of a bit that it will never really matter, but there you have it. Just like a skater putting there arms out to slow down a spin, the earth will slow down, and it will speed up as the elevator comes back to earth too. Well I hope that answers you question a bit. I don’t have a source handy, but if you look for articles on the space elevator you should be able to find the comment.
2006-09-01 04:56:22 · answer #2 · answered by whoevermeam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth won't decelerate because of the fact, the planet earth isn't autopropulse, is the interplay of the sunlight and something of the planets in our photograph voltaic gadget that are integrated which makes each planet rotate on its Axis and around the sunlight at comparable speed. wish I helped solid luck
2016-11-06 05:27:51 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Earth actually IS slowing down -- in the time of the dinosaurs (60-70 million years ago) the Earth spun fast enough that there were about 385 days in the year...
2006-09-01 04:48:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, as a matter of fact the earth DID slow down when we had that Huge Sunami in Indonesia and it alway had been slowing down.Though Very slowly.
http://pages.prodigy.com/suna/earth.htm
2006-09-01 04:58:32 · answer #5 · answered by kat 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it is slowing down what happens is that once in a while a extra second is added to the year
no we dont fall backwards. How old are you ?
2006-09-01 04:45:56 · answer #6 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We would spin off into space young lady...that would be a bad thing probably...
There is some variation to the earths spin and angle...it is called the eccentricity and obliguity of its' orbit
2006-09-01 04:48:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the earth is constantly slowing down.
every 100 years, it slows down by 0.02 seconds
2006-09-01 04:47:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
even if it spin fast we will be held by gravitational force
2006-09-01 08:45:08 · answer #9 · answered by dgreen006 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything is possible but not probable
2006-09-01 04:48:12 · answer #10 · answered by Dr M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋