Why don't we feel Earth's rotation and revolution??

Question

It's a really dumb question, but I always wondered abt this question...Everyone knows that Earth is constantly rotating around its own axis and the sun....so we should be moving along the Earth too??? But why don't we feel it??

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Answer 1

You don't feel the Earth's revolution or rotation because both are at constant velocity. If either were to change, accelerate or decelerate, you WOULD feel that due to inertia, i.e; "an object in motion tends to stay in motion and an object at rest tends to stay at rest unless acted on by another force ".

Answer 2

It's kind of like when you're riding an airplane... while you're in flight, you don't feel like you're zooming along at hundreds of miles per hour. However, you do feel acceleration/braking during landing/takeoff, and you do notice course changes. True, the earth is going around in a circle, but the circle is so large that it feels like a straight line to us. Hence, we don't feel a thing.

A related question is: why isn't there a constant gale? The reason why not is because the atmosphere pretty much rotates together with the earth, although if you look at weather maps, weather patterns do tend to move from west to east due to the earth's rotation.

Answer 3

You do "feel " it....the force is just tiny compared to the earth's gravity and in the exact opposite direction.

Your weight on the equator is reduced by about 1/2 percent due to earth's rotation.

Answer 4

inertia,,,,,,,,,,member a cartoon where the dude gets pulled-stretched by the door handle,catches up to it like a rubber band snap,,,,,,,,acceleration to a given velocity, if gradual,is easily tolerated by the human body,,,,,,,,we have no sensation of traveling at 18 thousand miles an hour because the bricks,dust,refridgerators and cars around us move at the same rateif we move opposite the direction of rotation,the rotational velocity is reduced,,,,,,,,if we go in the direction of rotation then we rotate faster than the 18k mph speed. (addition of velocities)

Answer 5

I think that we were born on earth that way, and its a natural feeling to be moving with not even knowing it on earth. And once, I was just staring at the sky and I actually saw it move round and round. So just stare at the clouds, thats how you know that you're moving =)

Answer 6

Because you were born onto a moving world - you have always had this inertia with regards to rotation. So you know no other way.

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Answer 7

If the earths rotation suddenly sped up you would feel it! We are used to the speed at wich it rotates is all.

Answer 8

Maybe the question should be: Would we feel dizzy and fall if the world stops spinning?

I guess we are used to the spinning..Or maybe we're too small to feel it..

Answer 9

Because of hundreds of millions of years we've evolved as it's spun, so we're just used to it.

Answer 10

you guys don't feel it? I do! wheeeeeeeeee :)