Wahh! the Earths gravity has been switched off! what exactly happens?

Answer 1

impossible question to answer since gravity can't be switched off.

Answer 2

It depends where on earth you are when it happens.
If you are at the north or south pole you would become suddenly weightless, and over a period of probably a few seconds but perhaps a few minutes the pressure of air would gradually fall to zero and you would die of lack of oxygen.

However if you were at the equator or the UK the loss of air pressure would be more sudden, and you would be in a vacuum in a matter of seconds. In addition, if you were out of doors, you would become weightless but would move upwards with increasing speed until you left the world behind. This is because of the centrifugal force from the spinning earth.
If you were indoors to a well built building you would end up sitting on the ceiling with a weight of around 1% of your earth weight. Everything would look upside down.

Another effect is that huge (500 kilometers cube) chunks of earth would tear off and fly into space with this rotation, releasing billions of tonnes of moltern lava and superheated gases that would fry everyone and possibly cause the whole outer half of the planet to peel off leaving a rotating apple core.

Answer 3

Well first of all, "Gravity" is just a theory (well I shoudn't say "just," but that has been hammered into my brain in my Anthropology class for the last two weeks). Scientists can't really explain it right now. So if it was "switched off," maybe we'd all just stay how we are, and maybe it's really something else keeping us down instead of floating around like elsewhere in space. And since there is no god, it must have been switched off the same way it was billions of years ago when we were formed. Or maybe my professor just has a big head...

Answer 4

If you switched gravity off, other laws of physics would still apply..specificially, Newton's. Objects would continue in a straight line...which, on a rotating sphere, would make then fly off the surface. If the velocity's force overcame the friction, then anything attached to the ground would come off. Plants, then soil, then bedrock, etc, would continue in a straight line.

So, yeah, the Earth would pretty much explode.

Answer 5

The earth would pretty much explode, since gravity keeps the earth's crust under a truly huge amount of pressure. also, we would all float off into space at around 1000 mi/h, since thats how fast the earth is rotating at the equator. That also goes for the atmosphere, it is under about 15 psi of pressure from the weight of all the air above it.

Good thing this could never actually happen.....or could it?

Answer 6

If gravity could be switched off we would all drift out into space

Answer 7

Of course it's impossible - but if we didn't have gravity we'd float off into space very quickly. Simple as that.

Answer 8

Jenny Craig stock falls 40 points.

Answer 9

You`ll as dead as a Do Do. my synopsis, the electromagnetic will be distinguished first along with the weak nuclear force. The next will be the strong force, + then on the next will be gravitational force.

Answer 10

The janitor gets fired.