If a strong magnettic force cause the earth to rotate around the sun at twice its normal speed would we?

Question

age twice as fast or just adjust the calander?

Answer 1

Adjust the calendar. The orbit of the Earth does not control the flow of time, we just use it to keep track of the flow of time. Like a big natural clock.

Answer 2

First, the Earth does not "rotate" around the sun, it revolves, or orbits. This may seem like a tiny distinction until you understand what those words mean.

Rotate is what the Earth does on its axis. Revolve is what it does around the sun.

If anything added energy to the earth in it's orbit, the earth would try to move further from the sun. This is due to simple angular momentum. If you have a ball on a rubber cord, and start swinging it above your head, the speed at which you are swinging it (orbital velocity) matches the tension on the rubber (gravity of the sun) if you start swinging it faster, the rubber will stretch more, and the orbit will be bigger.

The earth's magnetic field woud not be "disrupted" by another large magnetic field, you can't strip away the earth's magnetic field. you can flip it, though, so that the north magnetic pole winds up in the south, and you could enhance it.

A magnetic field would have to be incredibly strong to move the earth in it's orbit. At the scale of the earth, gravity is much, much stronger than magnetism. Plus, the Earth's magnetic field is genterated by a geodynamo, so it spins with the earth--try taking magnets that are attracting each other and flipping one.

Time is relative, according to relativity. Time changes universally in a system with changes in mass and momentum, so if there was some weird effect like that, which would not be related to magnetism, we would all feel it exactly the same and therefore would not be able to tell that is was hapening.

Adjusting the calendar would likely not be an option, as if there were energy added to the Earth's orbital speed, and we found ourselves in a further orbit from the sun, it would get very cold. The amount of enrgy we receive from the sun decreases with the inverse square of the distance. Even small changes, like a few tenths of an AU, would cause global cooling. Worse, the energy added would have to be added carefully, or the boost would increase the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit, making it pass alternately closer then further from the sun, baking us one time of the year and freezing us the other. So, we likley couldn't adjust the calendar because we'd be dead.

Your question was a bit silly, but valid curiousity, and I hope that this helps somewhat. You might want to investigate astronomy at wikipedia:

Answer 3

We would tinker with the calendar, which we are already doing. No magnetic influence will have any appreciable effect on the speed of the earth's rotation, but the tides do, and we see this in two ways: the moon is getting farther from the earth by about an inch a year, and the earth's rotation is slowing slightly such that an extra second has to be added to clocks every few months to keep the clocks in synchronization with the rotation.

Answer 4

If a magnetic field did manage to do that, we'd have bigger problems than adjusting the calendar.

Such a strong magnetic field could not be a natural Earth phenomenom. It would have to be strong enough to wipe out (or, at least, drown the effects of) Earth's magnetic field which protects us from high energy charged particles from space.

Such a strong field would accelerate every charged particle to such an extent that we'd be bathed in radiation causing harm to our bodies.

Therefore: we'd "age" much faster and would probably be too sick to adjust the calendar.

Answer 5

There would be no effect on biological aging.

Our speed in orbit around the sun is dependent upon the masses of the earth and sun and the distance of the earth from the sun. Thus a speeding of our orbit would have the consequence of altering our distance from the sun, and with it dire effects on the climate would happen. Instead of aging, most (or all) of life on earth would just die.

Answer 6

The earth moves around the sun at 67,000 mph and spins at about 1,000 mph, so you tell me what would happen. There was one answer that told you more than I could have, so if you will do a google search for "the speed of the earths rotation" there is all kinds of info there.

Answer 7

adjust the calender

Answer 8

get dizzy lol
adjust the calendar