well..what changes if the earth is a cube?
2007-03-01 23:01:32 · 6 answers · asked by Hanalene 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Since the atmosphere would remain spherical (being a function of the gravitational focus at the center of the Earth), the "corners" of the Earth would rise out of the atmosphere. So you would have areas that would be exposed to "vacuum". The oceans would slosh around the corners, creating vast turbulances at the edges of the faces of the Earth. Sunlight would have a more extreme exposure to the planar surfaces, causing more extreme temperature variations between day and night, and probably a lot more atmospheric disturbances (tornadoes, gales, hurricanes, etc.). And the impact of meteors would be more frequent and devastating, since the atmospher would be thinner at the corners, and more of the impacts would be "direct" rather than "glancing" impacts.
All in all, not a very nice place to live. I'm glad we live on a ball (okay, a pear, but close enough).
2007-03-01 23:09:24 · answer #1 · answered by Grendle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the earth is not a sphere its a oblate spheriod if its a cube it will rotate differently thats why the earth rotates around the sun if it was a perfect sphere it wood go straight like a baseball it can curve becuz the stitches if its not a perfect sphere it can curve.
2007-03-01 23:13:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The oceans would collect at the center of the cube faces.
2007-03-01 23:13:52 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earth is already not a sphere to begin with.
2007-03-01 23:04:56 · answer #4 · answered by vj_samuel1990 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
if it is was cube,sun rays cant spread on top and bottom of earth firstly.
it would be impossible to tarvel in land ,water ways
2007-03-01 23:12:53 · answer #5 · answered by dinnu 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gravity will be messed up on the corners, each corner will be like climbing a mountain.
2007-03-01 23:05:03 · answer #6 · answered by Topgear is my life! TG 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋