2006-12-22 08:28:41 · 11 answers · asked by jlb 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
er Ashton-sm is'nt that the way things are now with the world?! lol
2006-12-22 08:47:32 · update #1
The dark side would become very cold. Not just a bit cold. After a few weeks the oceans would freeze over and then the atmosphere would start to freeze too starting with the carbon dioxide. The side facing the sun would begin to boil the oceans. The only place to live would be on a ring near the edge of the sunny side where the sun isn't too direct.
Without the centrifugal force of rotation your weight would *increase* very slightly. But of course there are exceptions, if you were standing at one of the poles your weight would not change.
And of course this assumes that the spinning stops relative to the sun. If it stops spinning relative to our galaxy then we will still have days and nights, but a full day and night would be exactly one year long.
And do you stop the earth's core from rotating too? For this would kill the magnetic field and would leave the upper atmosphere unprotected from the solar wind. The wind from the sun would blow our atmosphere into deep space just like it did on Mars. This would take hundreds of millions of years so that would be the least of our worries.
2006-12-22 10:07:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You will NOT be thrown forward at 1,000 miles per hour. You are attracted to the earth's center of gravity, and that won't move.
On the other hand, if the sun is high in the sky when the earth stops spinning, you will roast and die. If it is night, you will freeze to death. Now, if you happen to be in the narrow band where the sun is at a good angle, it seems like you should be okay for awhile. However, we are probaby overlooking something (like, for example, mass panic as all of humanity tries to get to the habitable zone).
By the way, this is approximately the conditions on Mercury, which also doesn't rotate - the sunny side is incredibly hot, but the dark side is brutally cold.
2006-12-22 11:17:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
we may witness exciting adjustments to the international Gravity would not matter on the spin, each little thing has gravity so no concerns there. besides the indisputable fact that, even even though it would not spin, besides the indisputable fact that the plant nonetheless revolve around the solar, so it wont perpetually be daylight hours on one area and evening time on the different. yet our daylight hours will be almost 0.5 a three hundred and sixty 5 days, and evening time yet another 0.5 a three hundred and sixty 5 days we will be in for a very very lengthy chilly iciness, and then a very very lengthy warm summer season. anybody would elect 2 houses, a summer season residing house and an igloo, lol
2016-12-01 02:25:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This was asked a few years back in my earth science class. My teacher put it this way: If the earth stopped immediately like a car stopping short, then all objects on earth will continue to move at several miles per hour because of inertia. Denser objects will be able to move faster because a larger mass equals a larger inertia, so our bones would literally be ripped out of our body and we'd die
2006-12-22 10:44:26 · answer #4 · answered by serpent 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the sun would shine all day on one spot and the rest of the world would be dark the sunny area would be hot all the time and the dark would be cold
the human race would lose track of time and the world would go into mass panic and would turn to an all out riot and it would kill society as we know it
hope this helps
2006-12-22 08:37:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it stopped instantly there would be earthquakes everywhere and most living things - and structures - would perish from being wrenched from the ground at over a thousand miles per hour (at the equator, decreasing to zero at the poles).
But it ain't gonna do that.
2006-12-22 08:47:48 · answer #6 · answered by hznfrst 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dear Jib:
You've asked a difficult and at the same time a very easy question.
-It is difficult since predicting what chain of events exactly happens afterwards is too complex and needs Godly data.
-It is easy since we all know it terminates life, hope and everything.
2006-12-22 08:33:07 · answer #7 · answered by Avecina 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everything not tied down sufficiently would fly off the surface at roughly 1200 miles per hour. That's pretty fast. Oh yeah, the air we breathe will also fly away from the surface.
2006-12-22 08:41:17 · answer #8 · answered by pantocrator 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Day and night stop to follow each other.
Your weight seems about 1% less.
Th
2006-12-22 09:21:12 · answer #9 · answered by Thermo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ALL WOULD DIE >_<
(How did you find out about my master plan) :)
2006-12-22 13:41:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋