how does the earth float in the position it stands?

Answer 1

the earth is travelling around the sun, drawn to it by magnetic attraction as are most of the planets, as in space the objects are weightless, so the earth is spinning on a circular path around the sun, not standing still, even tho as you stand still you are actually moving, hope this helps as i think i got wrapped up in my answer........science has thou calculated the weight of the earth, dont ask me how but have a look at the nasa website.

Answer 2

The Earth doesn't float; there is no up or down in space. The reason why it appears to not "fall" anywhere is due to centripetal force, that is, the force holding the Earth close to the Sun (via the Sun's gravity). One of the most common misconceptions of space is that there is no gravity. There is gravity all the time. The only reason we are not aware of it (the same reason why the Earth remains "floating") is because the Earth is always falling towards the Sun. However, it is travelling at so fast a speed that it will never actually hit the Sun.
Imagine a car driving at a uniform velocity. (That is, at a constant speed in a constant direction.) It will never stop, decelerate, accelerate or anything else. It will carry on forever. However, imagine a body whose mass is large enough for it to have a gravity field. As the car travels past the body (like the Earth past the Sun), it will get pulled towards it. If the car's speed was great enough, it will never crash into the body and it will never go "flying off the edge". If the speed of the car was too slow, it will crash, as the force of gravity would be greater that the speed needed to keep the car in orbit; and if the speed of the car was too fast, it would "go flying off the edge", as the force of gravity is not large enough to counteract the speed of the car and keep it falling towards the body. However (don't worry; I'm nearly finished), if the speed of the car was neither too fast nor too slow, it will neither fall towards the body, nor "go flying off", leaving it to only keep falling towards the body, but with the speed keeping it from actually hitting the body, thus keeping the car in orbit.
Also, I must mention that there is no such thing as centrifugal force. This is merely the absence of centripetal force; the force holding the object in orbit. (In our case, the gravity from the body, keeping the car around it, or the Sun's gravity, keeping the Earth in orbit around it.)
Look at the link below for a (probably) clearer explanation:

Answer 3

Because the earth is of less density than the vaccuuous entity that is "space" it stays where it is, which is actually the top, much like a twig will float in a pond. There is a real worry that som "space" will infiltrate the earths atmosphere, thus making it heavier, and eventually sinking. This would be exciting as when we reache the bottom, expeditions could be sent out to other such "planet wrecks", provided that there were sufficient "sun wrecks" down there to keep us warm and power our solar powered eqiupment. The downside is that the moon would be left behind, eliminating the phenomenon known as the "tides", which would bring an end to all surfing, and surf competitions. Like I say, this is a real worry, but scientists say that is isn't due to happen for ten or eleven years, so there is no need to worry yet.

Answer 4

There are two forces holding the earth in the same position.
The first is the Suns gravitational pull on the Earth, constantly trying to pull us towards it. The only thing that stops the Earth falling into the Sun is the Earths mass and speed as it orbits around the Sun. If the Sun had no gravity to pull us back, the Earth would shoot off into space. Therefore, both forces are essential to maintain the position we have around the Sun.

Answer 5

The term 'float' is misleading, you can float in the sea, you can float on the breeze but you can't float in the void.

Incidentally the Earth and Sun and the planets revolved around a common centre of gravity, which because of it's greater mass is near to the centre of the Sun, thus the Earth and planets appears to revolve around the Sun.

Answer 6

The Earth's position in space is controlled by gravity (the force that hold you to the ground). The sun is trying to pull the Earth towards it while the mass (not weight) of the Earth is try to escape the gravitational pull of the Sun. The other objects in the Solar system affect the location of the Earth which causes a wobble in its orbit that we cannot feel but can be measured.

Answer 7

It's all a matter of gravity. Any two bodies attract one anotherfor example, the earth pulls the moon towards the earth and the moon pulls the earth towards the moon. if a body (man) stands on the moon he is pulled towards the centre of the moon, but as the moon does not have the smae mass as the earth, it does not pull him as strongly as the earth.
In space, each planet, star etc is in equilibrium, if one planet were to be removed, then all the others would also move slightly from there current position

Answer 8

The earth is rotating at just over 1,000 mph and is travelling around our sun in an elliptical orbit of 587 million miles at an average speed of 67,000 mph.

Our Galaxy is said to be travelling through space at 1.35 million mph.

All of this says that we are not exactly floating in the same position.

Answer 9

The Sun holds the earth in it gravitational orbit, the same as it does for all the Planets in our Solar system, in turn our solar system is held together by Gravitational pull of our galaxy, and we are all spinning in space, and at some stage in the future our Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy's and we will be obliterated by the collision. But don't worry this will not happen for million's of years, by which time our sun will have died and we will all be dead, long before that happens. Happy days :-)

Answer 10

The earth does not float in space as such, it sits in the fabric of space much like a ballbearing would on a sheet of cloth, this is also how we experience the effect could gravity as the curvature of this space fabric attracts smaller less dense objects towards it.