what would happen if the world stopped revolving round?
Would it cause terrible things?
2006-10-30 23:05:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
If the earth were to stop spinning then gravity would have a stronger effect on everything on earth. in essence everything would become heavier. it would also cause very long days. i.e. almost 6 months, as you would have to wait for the earth to orbit around to the other side of the sun before it changed from dark to light. this would probably be generally regarded as a bad thing as it would screw with sleeping patterns and hibernations and migrations.
however, if the earth stopped dead (highly unlikely) then we would all be thrown into the air and the pulled back down to earth with great force probably killing just about everything. and if that didn't kill you you would likely drown as the oceans, seas and rivers were also hurled into the air. lets hope it doesn't happen eh?
2006-10-31 02:13:14 · answer #1 · answered by kizerking 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The earth is gradually slowing down, but this process will take a few billion years before we will will be locked into a sun synchronous rotation, meaning half a year of sunlight and half a year of darkness for alternate sides of the earth. However in the very unlikely event that the earth stops dead, the atmosphere would still be rotating at a speed of 1100 mph at the equator, so anything not attached to bedrock would be scoured off and swept up into the air!
2006-10-31 07:19:52 · answer #2 · answered by Madfan 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There would be very extreme temperatures in the two hemispheres into which the world is divided. That facing the sun would have extremely high temperatures and that facing away from the sun would have extremely low temperatures. Terrible is a subjective word. For humans terrible things would happen. The environment of the world would be transformed with existing ecosystems disappearing and more simplistic ecosystems replacing them. Human populations would be decimated and few would survive.
2006-10-31 07:21:39 · answer #3 · answered by G Fair Meadow 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Les put it this way. If the world stoped spinning LIfe as we know it, Jim, would cease to exsist. We need the rotation of the earth to maintain the evolution cycles of life. But lets just say that the Earth cannot stop rotating anyway.
2006-10-31 08:50:30 · answer #4 · answered by FlyingPm 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Simply put, if the earth stopped revolving we would have no life. It's essential for the earth to rotate for civilization, as a whole, to survive.
2006-10-31 07:14:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you weren't tied down, you would be knocked off the ground at a few hundred mph and the water would slosh out of the lakes and oceans . One side would get very hot and the other very cold. Don't worry. The conservation laws of angular momentum wouldn't let it happen.
2006-10-31 07:09:26 · answer #6 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Boy, that's a really difficult question ill have to go and do some research on that and get back to you!
2006-10-31 07:18:29 · answer #7 · answered by pageys 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We would all fall off of course. It's only centrifugal force that keeps us on the earth you know.
2006-10-31 07:09:59 · answer #8 · answered by dragonrider707 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋