Now, the earth is spinning and also around the sun ans also the univers. How fast are we traveling?

Question

I would like to know how fast we are traveling through the univers and if we stopped in one poing in space right now, What would happen?

Answer 1

Your speed always depends upon a known reference point. It is said that the Earth's surface at the equator moves at roughly 1000 miles per hour. As far as the rest, it gets much more complex. We go really fast around the sun. We go even faster in whatever the solar system moves in. If we suddenly stopped, the forces would be unimaginable. By that I mean who knows or can imagine what would happen? Gravity would still be working. I guess we would start for the sun. If gravity quits, then who knows?

Answer 2

According to the Big Bang theory, the earth was originally a chunk out of the Sun, gradually falling into orbit around it and cooling in the process. Back in those days (some 4.6 billion years ago) the lump that slowly formed into planet Earth would have been revolving at a much greater rate than now. It would have had a five-hour cycle or rotation to begin with. It is due to the gravitational pull of the moon and the tides, which absorb energy, that the Earth's rotation has been slowing down ever since.

Answer 3

The earth rotates at about 465 meters/sec at the equator.
We orbit the sun at around 29,000 meters /sec.
The sun orbits the galactic centre at about 217,000 meters/second.
The Milky Way is moving relative to the observed locations of other local galaxies at between 130,000 and 1,000,000 meters/sec (there are conflicting opinions about the speed, because motion of galaxies has no absolute "rest" reference point, so its hard to really define our galaxy's motion).
I'll let you add it all up.

If everything were to suddenly stop (which is impossible, nothing could cause that to happen and its against all the physics we know), then everything would have to stop, including each of us.
So assuming no gravitational forces such as you would experience when stopping suddenly in a moving car, then we would notice only that the sun no longer moves in the sky, and the seasons don't change (we wouldn't be orbiting the sun).

Answer 4

Check out the picture at the link below. It has appeared on Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) something like 7 or 8 times since 1995.

It shows the cosmic microwave background dipole signal which measures the speed of the Earth relative to the frame of reference of the cosmic microwave background. Speed is about 600 km/s.