I have to write a short answer on what worse could happen if earth's gravity collapsed for a few seconds?

Question

please give precise answers

Answer 1

Say My dog ate my homework

Answer 2

Well, the *worst* thing would be that an expansion wave radiating from the earth's interior would propel the entire earth's crust into space in a process know as spallation. I'm not sure if it would exceed escape velocity, so it might or might not fall back down. If it did, the impact would melt it.

What would cause this is the fact that the interior of the earth is significantly compressed by the weight of the material above it. Iron in the core, for example, is a few 10's of percent denser than on the surface. With the weight gone momentarily, the immense pressure would relieve itself by expanding outward.

Answer 3

Gravity exists between any two masses. As long as the Earth and everything that make it up are there, gravity will be too. Therefore the only way for gravity to disappear, even for a few moments would be for all the mass to disappear. If somehow gravity was gone, it means you and all the Earth must be too. So in short, nothing would happen cause it would mean nothing was there for anything to happen too!

Answer 4

All loose objects lying on earth including we human beings and animals will fly off with a speed of 11 km /sec.

If the few seconds of question were 5 seconds, then these objects which would have travelled a distance of 55 km in 5 sec will continue to fly off after 5 sec but with a deceleration of 9.81 m/s and when they lose their speed will retrace their journey back to earth. On reaching the surface of earth, the impact of hitting the surface will completely disintegrate the objects.

Answer 5

All the water on the earth would no longer be pulled down, so it would float up. When the gravity would get restored, who knows where it'd get dropped. People might drown, cities could be ruined; it'd be like a tidal wave effect.

Hope that helped, or at least got you thinking :o)

Answer 6

"Total Chaos" Everything on earth's surface or even below surface will fly out to space due to the Earths centrifugal force. It will be a total destruction of our planet.

Details cannot be explain due to the magnitude of destruction.

Oops! not just the earth...the moon also.

Answer 7

most life on earth would end and the moon will fall away from the earth causing temperatures and seasons to go very differenet.

Answer 8

collapsed? like disappeared? or broke down in a giant vortex or something? if it suddenly went away, everything would float like in space, i think the atmosphere would collapse because there'd be nothing to hold it in place.

Answer 9

1.if a little longer we would all be lost in space
2.if for a brief period we might suffer injuries
3.if really short it may serve as a mode of easy transport
leap from your house and there you are at your school!

Answer 10

we would lose the atmosphere and many/most things would float off into space