What would happen if the world slowed down (spinning i mean) would we all start floating ?

Answer 1

No, we would not all start floating. I used to have the same belief as a young child - that it was the rotation of the earth that caused us to stay on the ground...but this is not the case!

Any object that has a mass creates a gravitational field. Two grains of sand even create gravity, but the amount of gravity they create is so small that we don't notice it. It is the mass of the earth that keeps us on the ground - the more massive the object, the stronger the force of gravity. That is why on the moon the astronauts jump really high and fall back to the ground more slowly. The opposite would be true on Jupiter...because it is more massive then gravity is stronger...

If the earth were to stop spinning, we would still remain on the ground. However the side of the earth that was facing the sun would heat up to intolerable levels and the side facing away from the sun would cool down drastically.

Another thing is that centrifugal force (scientifically known as centripetal force) has a lot to do with inertia. Inertia is the charecteristic for an object to remain at rest or to maintain a constant speed and direction. Since we live on the surface of the earth, the centripetal force is actually already throwing us outwards, but it's not very strong...(how many people have you ever seen falling upwards into the sky?). Thus it makes no sense to say that centripetal/centrifugal force is keeping us down...if anything it should be throwing us back up.

Answer 2

Depending on the rate of deceleration, the earth would end up in a similar situation as the moon is to us, only worse.

Gravity would not change. Assuming rate of deceleration is slow enough to accommodate gravities pull. Mass of the planet is what gives us gravitational pull. Not the rotation.

As the planet slows there would be notable changes. Over time, days and nights would grow longer and depending on where you live, hotter or colder. Each seasons would last longer and longer. Soon the planet would come to a stop and, like the moon is to the earth, the earth would be to the sun. The same side of the planet would continually face the planet it orbits. One side in continual darkness the other in continual light. Soon the locations closest to the sun and the parts located furthest from the sun would seek shelter closer to the light equator. The middle ground. This is where tempters would be ideal for supporting life. Animal and man would seek this area of the globe. Eventually, become over populated by both. Over time, the population of the planet would dwindle to within levels able to sustain life with the new given planetary environment. Man would continue.

Answer 3

we would feel slightly heavier, as the absence of centrifugal force from the spin. That force provided an amount of away from the center of earth force that countered gravity.

Second assuming the orbit didn't change, just the world stopped spinning, it would take and entire year for daylight to travel around the earth, and thus redefining the day to last 8766 hours. Its likely ice and severe cold would develop in that length of time while the constant sun bathing on the other side of earth would dry, and wilt into a desert like environment. The change would likely devastate the planets population, plant and animal alike due to the living things of this planet not being able to cope with a year of darkness and a year of daylight.

lets all hope that doesn't happen :)

Answer 4

The earth's gravity does not depend on the rate at which it spins. Given Newton's law of universal gravitation,

F = -G x [(m1xm2)/r²]

does not refer to the rate at which any physical body spins. It does however, make reference to the mass (m1 and m2) of the 2 objects involved (in this case the earth and people), and the distance between them (r²).

So the answer to your question would be no, people would not float. The days and nights would become longer, and perhaps there would be some major climate change as well given that the time where any one part of the earth is warmed and cooled by day and night becomes longer. Weather patterns would change as well as the result of this, with maybe stronger and more frequent winds and more severe storms, etc.

Answer 5

sincerely, there will be series chain-reaction of natural disasters will occur one after another, as i did make a simply calculation possibility of such incident may happen through earth geographics, scientific fact of climax, and other planetary circle in our solar systems, where the result will be;
once the earth stop to rotate, the climax around the world will start to shift along the atmosphere causing unpredictable thunder, rain, wind, and possibly ice-storm around the world even so the earth have stop moving, the magnetic-field which the earth produce will last for a possibility of days or maybe weeks to sustain us and the atmosphere within earth where for the brief moment we'll felt as though the weight is coming onto us. but as the day passes where the earth no longer produce its magnetic-field, the ultra-violet ray of the sun will start to penetrate through our atmosphere as the earth is no longer able to sustain the o-zone layers and there people may have a few second time to float before the earth totally losses all its magnetic-field.
and the end result; the living prove ~ planet jupiter.
or worst if all the volcanoes around the world might erupt in the same time of the chain-reaction.

Answer 6

Erm no in no way. The spinning of the earth is brought about with the help of gravitational forces which has no bearing on fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are discovered at intensity beginning from 0ft to ten,000ft in vertical intensity. The center of the earth is discovered over 15 miles decrease than the exterior of the earth that's a great distance faraway from the wallet of oil that are accessible.

Answer 7

Despite what all the so-called experts have said, I fear that if the earth were to slow down, we would become apparently heavier in proportion to the amount of slowing until we seemed so heavy that we could no longer move. Or is that just a flight of (my) fancy?

Answer 8

Gravity is created by mass not the spinning

You pull up on the earth just not enough for you to notice as your mass is so little

If it span a lot faster(talking billions of billions of billions of miles faster) we might float off as the centrefugal force would throw us

Tridon

Answer 9

no on the contrary we would become heavier and stick to the ground, the spinning of the earth pushes us aways from the surface of the earth (centripetal force), if the earth stops spinning, this force (centripetal) will stop acting upon us, thus we would become heavier.
if you want to float you need to spin the earth faster.

Answer 10

No we would not float of, but most likely the Days and Nights would get longer which means more school/College/University and longer to stay in bed.