When Earth rotates, why don't we feel movement?

Question

I never understood why.
Please don't make it too hard to understand!

Answer 1

We r moving with the earth at the same speed.
It's Newton's 1st law.

Answer 2

The earth is extensive on an identical time as guy is small. All issues on the exterior is rotating with the earth on the comparable velocity, which incorporate the air. we won't be able to experience something around us shifting so we don't experience the earth rotating. If we glance at a celeb or the moon a ways away, the value of action is so sluggish that we don't are responsive to that's shifting, yet at sundown, you will discover the pink sunlight slowing happening under the horizon. for that reason, you could comprehend the rotation of the earth once you notice the sunlight placing.

Answer 3

Because we are rotating along with the earth at constant velocity.

We feel movement only if there is a change in velocity. This creates an acceleration and because we have mass, it results in a force (force = mass times acceleration). We travel along with an elevator, but the elevator changes velocity quite often. The rotation of the earth is constant, and because the velocity never changes, it gives people the impression they are not moving.

Answer 4

It's because you are traveling at the same speed of the rotating Earth which is close to one thousand miles an hour. You feel the same way traveling in an automobile because the speed is steady and not changing.......if it was changing speed, either the earth or the automobile, you would feel it.....and what you would be feeling is called acceleration.....speed changing with time. The earth does not change its rotational speed.....that is why you don't feel it and you can count on every day being the same length of time. Ring....oops...there goes my alarm clock.....can someone slow down the earth so I can get more sleep?

Answer 5

Well you never really feel movement, you feel acceleration, but not movement. If you in a car going 55 with all the windows closed you don't feel your movement. You feel it when you take a turn, and that's just acceleration in a different direction. You feel it when you hit the breaks and that's just acceleration in the opposite direction

Answer 6

Mainly because of gravity.
And think of being in a car you feel motion when starting motion or changing speed not so much when you are already moving except when you change speed or direction which increases or decreases the G-force you are under.

Answer 7

In actuality, you do "feel" the Earth's rotation. You may not notice it, but it does affect us in minor ways. The Earth is rotating from east to west. This is why the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
This rotation causes toilets to flush clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere. This effect can also be observed in a similar fashion in people.

If you walk from the north pole to the equator following a compass bearing of due south, you will gradually begin to stray to the left (or east). This is because as you move south, the Earth is moving west under your feet to the west, so each step you take lands you slightly further east than the last. It is also due to the fact that successively lower (closer to the equator) lines of latitude span a larger circular distance. Since the entire Earth must rotate at a constant rotational velocity, a spot on the Earth at 10 degrees latitude will have a higher absolute motion than a spot at 70 degree latitude. So as you walk south your surroundings begin to move faster and faster as you get left a little more behind with each step. By the way, you move right (also to the east) in the southern hemisphere as you walk north towards the equator for the same reason.

This all has to do with inertia and perspective. You have intertia of rest and intertia of motion. We were born into a moving world so we started off with intertia of motion. Since we are not accelerating or decelerating (at least not fast enough for us to notice; the Earth's rate of rotation has varied over time) we continue living in our constantly spinning world. In the absense of this planet and atmosphere and any other gravitational effects, we would remain completely still in absolute space. What we notice on time scales we can understand from day to day comes solely from our perspective of our immediate surroundings. Since the Earth and atmosphere around us do not seem to move in relation to our position, we have no sense of motion. Even though the planet rotates about itself and about the sun, and our solar system rotates within the galaxy, we only notice movement of ourselves relative to our immediate surroundings. Take, for example, flying in a plane. Once the plane has reached its cruising speed, you no longer "feel" like you are traveling at over 500 mph. This is because the plane and the air mass within the plane is not accelerating or decelerating. You do have a strong gravitational pull from the Earth that makes it harder to walk forward than backward in a plane. This doesn't apply, however, when physically standing on the Earth.

So, at any given moment, you may be rotating thousands of km/hour due to the Earth's rotation, rotating around the Sun at an even faster rate, being swept through the galaxy in our limb of the Milky Way, and being thrust through the universe as the galaxy moves. But we feel quite stationary on our planet. Movement is all based on perspective and since our perspective does not extend beyond our fixed surroundings, we feel next to no movement or rotation. Just don't plan a hike from the Northern Rockies to Baja California and expect to get there by following your compass south. Even though we may not feel like our rotating Earth has any effect on us, on very small distance scales and very long time scales, it does.

Answer 8

Our senses have been adjusted through evolution to ignore the very slight movement of the earth,the same principle as when you live near the rapid transit trains in a big city,after a while your ears adjust to the noise and ignore it

Answer 9

We do feel the movement of the Earth's rotation in the form of gravity, wind, and waves.

Answer 10

Because we don't see anything close enough to it to realize there is motion.

Think of sitting in a high speed car looking at at a book in that car. You don't realize how fast the car is going. But if you look out the window at the roadside grass whizzing along then you get the sense of motion.

Answer 11

Ok the above answers are fair enough but on a sunny day, go to a field and lie down on your back and watch the clouds race by.

Magic!