Why cant you feel the Earth moving??

Question

Gah, I am so confused!

Answer 1

One would think that while standing on a spinning Earth, you would feel lots of different angles of acceleration. But this is not the case. The fact that the Earth spins results in another force called the centrifugal force, which points in the direction away from the earth's axis of rotation. It is greatest the farther you are away from the rotation axis (i.e. at the equator), and non-existent at the north and south poles.
However, even at the equator, this force is very tiny (only 0.3% of the
gravitational force) - so you don't notice it at all. The reason it is so small is simply that the Earth doesn't rotate fast enough.

Answer 2

Scientific reason: The reason we don't feel the earth spin is because you can only experience spinning at a constant velocity as the centrifugal force, and on the surface of Earth, the centrifugal force is very weak compared to gravity. Gravity is pushing us down toward the center of the earth at roughly 9.8 m/s^2. If you are standing on the equator you have a centripetal acceleration of roughly 0.034 m/s^2, causing a centrifugal force of of your mass times the centripetal acceleration. So you're constantly being pushed down at roughly 9.8 m/s^s and constantly being pushed up at roughly 0.034 m/s^2. Like all bodies under multiple forces, you only experience the NET force, which is pushing you down. Laymen's Terms: We don't feel that because everything else is moving with us and because the motion is very, very smooth. It's kind of like sitting in a car and reading a book or playing a game. If the car is going very smoothly, with no stops or bumps, and you don't look out the window, you wouldn't know you were moving. The only reason we know the earth is turning is because the sun and stars move across the sky.

Answer 3

Just face it,.. your use to the Earth moving. >.>

Well it's true. Your use to your Car moving, right? Have you ever noticed in a vehical that your not use to rideing in you can feel it tug and jerk,.. but not so much yours... not when it's driving normal. Slamming the breaks shouldn't be normal,... driving at 25 Miles Per Hour for 20 minutes is normal and you probably don't feel like your moving since your so use to it.

Anyways,.. the Earth is moving relateively slower then your car anyways,.. and you have the sun and moon and some other things countering the sensations out.


Oh Ya,... plus... what do you have to compare to? No wind dragging through you, nothing large we are passing by,... the sun and moon and things make it so you don't notice things moving around. The only thing you notice passing by is the Sun and Moon and that's so slow... not fast enough for you to feel like your rushing around.

Answer 4

Because we move with the earth.

It is the same as when you are In car with an other person. You feel as if the person has not move. Actually , this person and you are moving at the speed of the car

Answer 5

It is simple since we are attached to same frame of reference as that of earth therefore we do not feel earth to be moving.

or if i say in simple language we are also moving we earth.

consider a ball which has a dead insect stick on it, now if you rotate the ball that insect will also rotate with it.

Answer 6

We can't feel movement. We can feel acceleration, slowing down or speeding up. Without visual cues or obvious acceleration we can't sense the motion because the changes are so slight from moment to moment.

Answer 7

I think it's because you are moving with it through space.
You only feel it move when the part you're on shifts suddenly, and that is an earthquake.

Answer 8

because we are moving with it.
ill go you one further, the earth rotates at about 1000 miles per hour...
another one, its been proven that if the earth were to stop rotating and revolving, time would stop...

Answer 9

Because of the gravity and earth is spining slow that's why

Answer 10

You can, but only during an Earthquake or a really spectacular kiss.