what would happen if the earth quit spinning around?

Answer 1

Various light based events on earth depend on three things: Our revolution around the sun, the earth's rotation, and our axial tilt. Revolution around the sun would still continue if the earth quit spinning. This would cause day and night to gradually move as the earth went around the sun. Rotation normally changes night to day when different sides face the sun. What other posters have ignored here is axial tilt. Axial tilt is the angle that the earth is tilted towards the sun. The earth leans in towards the sun all year. Sometimes the top half of the globe, the Northern Hemisphere, which is most inhabited (i think), leans in. That would be May to August, and it gets hotter when the earth leans in. It isn't because the top half is a little closer, it is because the sun hits that part square in the face. (its difficult to explain why direct summer sunlight is hotter than winter rays, you can start another question if you can't understand). Australia has summer right this second though, because their half, the bottom, is leaned in at the moment.

Let's say rotation stopped this second. (it is night where I am, but day in australia). Australia is not only going to get constant daylight for several months, it is going to get constant SUMMER daylight! Australia will be SCORCHED, and weather patterns will go wild. Unequal heating of the earth generally means more violent weather. So hurricanes will kill us poor americans before frostbite does.

Answer 2

Litlte One:

Several effects both on earth and in orbit would happen:

1. Temperature on and inside the Earth would increase.

2. Several chemical processes in the atmosphere that is
responsible for purification and chemical interaction would
cease. With these processes oxygen would be scarce.

3. Ocean currents would stop. With temperates rising
the oceans would boil off in a matter of days.

4. All plant and animal life would cease to exist within 30 days
or sooner.

5. Electrostatic discharging would start within 7 days after the
Earth stopped spinning. Lightning on the scale not seen
since the earth was first formed would be seen. Lightning
in the Midwest would pale in comparison to lightning of this
order.

6. The ozone layer would dissipate in a matter of days and we
would bake in ultraviolet radiation until nothing was left alve.

7. Internal heating would be so vast .. constant volcanic
activity would happen. Eventually the Earth would explode
due to excessive pressure.

These are just a few thing on the surface that can happen.
Thankfully the rotation around the Sun keeps all the rotation-
al momentum in check.

Answer 3

The only way the earth could totally stop would be a gradual slowing over billions of years. Any faster than that and the liquid core would cause the earth to either wobble out of control or in a more likely scenario, break apart or even collide with our own moon. There are many things that *could* happen depending upon the circumstances, but its generally agreed that none would be pleasant. Best for us would be that the earth just keep spinning.

Answer 4

If it is an abrupt stop, (you did not specify) you would suddenly have to deal with 1000 mile per hour winds and global flooding.
Remember, the Earth makes one revolution in a 24 hour period and it is approximately 24,000 miles around the equator so that means that the atmosphere is revolving at the same speed, approximately 1000 miles per hour.
Apply Newton's laws of motion to the equation when the Earth suddenly stops it's rotation and,,,,,,,,
Not a survivable situation I'm afraid so apart from that you really wouldn't be able to evaluate what else happens.

Answer 5

in accordance to the large Bang concept, the earth replaced into initially a chew out of the solar, gradually falling into orbit round it and cooling interior the approach. decrease back in lately (some 4.6 billion years in the past) the lump that slowly shaped into planet Earth would were revolving at a a lot more beneficial fee than now. it may have had a 5-hour cycle or rotation firstly. that is by way of the gravitational pull of the moon and the tides, which take in power, that the Earth's rotation has been slowing down ever considering.

Answer 6

it would take a year for the sun to rise and set, insead of only a day. So, the dark side of the earth would freeze, and the bright side would cook, kinda like the moon right now.
the only way you could survive would be to follow the slow moving sunset all the way around the earth, which is the only part that would have normal temperatures.

Answer 7

Global warming, and cooling, at the same time. But, as luck has it, the Penguin Army would be stuck on the sun side and turn to flames; man-bear-pig would be frozen to death on the night side, and Al Gore could make another movie. And the New York Times would blame Bush.

Women and minorities, of course, would be hardest hit.

Answer 8

Well, we would all weigh more. Depends on where the sun is when the spinning stops. It would be a big problem...

Answer 9

it wouldn't effect gravity because gravity is caused by mass not velocity or rotation, so what the guy above me said is right, the side facing the sun would cook while the dark side would freeze over.

Answer 10

If it stopped ,well,the sun would stay put as well,so if it stopped at 3pm,the sun would never set,and the Japanese and chinese would be pissed because it would stay dark forever,and we,assuming your in the USA would be with light permanently