What started the earth spinning in the first place?

Question

Please, no stupid God answers.

Answer 1

conservation of angular momemtum!.....
hold a pivoted wheel in ur hand nd suddenly change it axis ..u will observe it will start rotating!!!!...
with the origin of planets which presumably are pieces of a sun after its explosions.. energy conservation has set it in motion...

if u r interested int eh finer details of it .. u may refer any mechanics book!... (like university physics..by Young .... or even the "lectures on physics" series volume1 by R.P.Feynman)

P.S. not much to do with GOD!... plain simple PHYSICS !!!!

Answer 2

What Started The Earth Spinning

Answer 3

the best accepted theory has to do with the whole formation of the earth and moon.

from a collision with a mars sized planet, but not head on, off to one side as to give our planet spin, and axis tilt. and at the same time creating out moon from the matterial thrown our by the collision. this theory helps to answer many queastion that go together about the earth. why we have such a hot interior, and magnetic pole, axis tilt, and rotation. though 4.5 billion years ago the moon was on 20,000 miles from the earth as it is 245,000 miles today

over time it has gotten farther away. and the collision sent the earth spinning so fast that one day lasted 6 hrs, the gravitational drag on the earth slowed the rotation and stableized the axis, without the moon our planted would litteraly flip over every 50,000 yrs, north would point straight at the sun then complete the turn and north world be south, seriously hindering life. mars flips beacuase it has no substantial gravity tug, its moons are far to small

so the answer of the earth and moon are on in the same. at least according to the theory,. but its the best one we have, if the moon was captured as a free floating planet. the rational thinking would suggest our planet woulednt have an axis tilt. so the moon collision theory fit the bill

Answer 4

I believe that the same object that collide with a young Earth and form the Moon start the spinning thing. Remember that the Moon is the principal reason for the rapidly spinning of the Earth.

Answer 5

The Earth spins because of the way it was formed. Our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a huge cloud of gas and dust started to collapse under its own gravity. As the cloud collapsed, it started to spin. Some of the material within this cloud gathered into swirling eddies and eventually formed into planets. As the planets formed they kept this spinning motion. As material gathered in more closely to form a planet, like Earth, the material spun faster. The Earth keeps on spinning because there are no forces acting to stop it.

Answer 6

Earth is not rotating. Michelson-Morley experiment, attempting to find scientific evidence that Earth is orbiting the sun, found the contrary. If Earth is not orbiting the sun, Earth must be stationary, and the sun must be orbiting Earth to get night and day. Web search of Robert Sungenis, producer of the documentary "The Principle", shown in select theaters, or Malcolm Bowden, a British engineer for information on a stationary Earth.

Answer 7

When the debris from the super nova that initiated our solar system,crashed into the hydrogen field that spawned us,it was wedge or cigar shaped.
Traveling at many hundreds of miles per second it churned as
a giant smoke ring. The angular momentum created by this catastrophic event,was divided up among all the components of the solar system resulting in spinning on their axis.

Answer 8

I believe it was the gravitational pull of the sun compared with the gravitational pull of other bodies (like planets and other stuff). Eventually the forces of these bodies caused the Earth to start spinning.

Answer 9

Scientist seem to think that Gravity of collapsing material started the rotation of the Earth.

Answer 10

All massive objects that coalesce from space dust and rocks (basically, everything in space) ends up spinning. That is because the material that it coalesces from collapses like a spiral. It's just kind of how things work.

Answer 11

Right after the big bang many rocks spreaded throughout space collided and made planets. after mars was created and earth mars crashed made it spin and gave us a moon