Explain what would happen if the earth stopped rotating, would we all fly off, or remain on earth?

Question

Just in theory for God sakes.
Don't give me its impossible for the earth to suddenly stop! I know that.
I was thinking it has something to do with a law or relation of interia. That relation being....?

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Answer 1

The velocity of the rotating earth is not small, so stopping it is no trivial task, considering that at the equator the planet spins at around 1000 miles per hour. There is centrifugal force which causes the earth to bulge at the equator, and of course everything on the surface is also spinning at that rate. So if the earth stopped spinning, the oceans would slosh enormously, creating great tsunamis all around the world. The loss of centrifugal force would cause the "bulge" to reduce, triggering all kinds of plate tectonic activity likely triggering all kinds of seismic activity, volcanos, etc. In fact, maybe the earth would briefly rip itself apart, at least partially, before gravity pulled all the pieces back together.

And in some form, I think we'd all go flying off into the sunrise, before gravity sucked us back down.

Of course the atmosphere would also "slosh" since it will act as a fluid, so the weather and winds would probably also go bonkers.

Don't believe me? Just try driving a car with a dishpan of water in the floorboard... but don't spill any!

Answer 2

If the earth would not spin there still would be gravity energy holding down mass into one lump structure as well whatever earth parasites are on its surface will still be held own the same way . The gravity pushing down is greater then the rotational spin energy ,therefore nothing whould fly off. The Reason is that the earth was designed with the tilt and spin that it has is to give humans time to sleep in the night, The tilt was designed to give human seasons. Also if the earth would not spin there would be no heat disipated at night and the earth would heat up on one sideto 300 degrees k and nothing of Vegetation would grow.
Never the less the earth will never be at rest unless a different energy sytem would be created where we would not need the Sun.

Accordingto General relativity the Earth as well as the Universe is represented as an imaginary non rotating volume.This non rotating manifold is called space time manifold.The Earth is not rotating and distorts space without any rotational motion.Hence Gravity is a warping of space without taking account what happens inside the manifold of spacetime. So according to relativity the earth is actually stopped.The idea is not far fetched as far as I am concerned we have terra ferma. (that means the earth is not moving relatively speaking)
if you are on earth you would admit that you are not moving but some obsever on the moon would say that the earth is spining and moving.

Answer 3

The Earth has a great deal of rotational kinetic energy because 1) it is very massive, and 2) it rotates rather rapidly. If the Earth stopped rotating, that energy wouldn't go away - it would turn mostly into heat. There is enough rotational energy in Earth to completely re-melt the planet and boil off the oceans and atmosphere it the Earth stopped suddenly. This would start with quakes and Tsunami, but by no means would it end there.
Lord Kelvin (British physicist) worked on this question about a century ago.

Answer 4

Gravity would not derive from the spinning of the Earth. Earth's spinning is purely the effect of conservation of angular momentum. The stuff it became into made out of wasn't all vacationing interior the comparable path while the pileup got here approximately that made our Earth and Moon. when you consider that there is not any mechanism to end the Earth's rotation that should enable us to stay, we could know it on the instant (if temporarily) while it got here approximately. the two the oceans or the air could proceed attempting to go at ~1000mph, or the super impactor that occurs to cancel our Earths rotation could sling the outer crust of the Earth into area for slightly.

Answer 5

Let's assume for a moment it's possible.

If the Earth stopped rotating extremely suddenly, everything on the surface (including the surface itself) would keep moving - eastward. Eventually the momentum/inertia of everything would dissipate (friction with the air, with other stuff moving) and everything would then drop to the ground (I don't have the math for how far we (and everything else) would continue to move or for how long, but the Earth is moving at 1,000 miles an hour at the equator, that's a lot of speed to get rid of.

The oceans would continue moving long after solid things (like buildings, people, and elephants) stopped moving, so we would have a series of global tidal waves (they could end up going around the globe a couple of times before finally damping out.
THAT would be a real mess to clean up.

Once everything fell to the ground, it would just stay there (gravity would hold it down).

Answer 6

If the earth suddenly stopped rotating, we would probably fall down and it would be slightly more difficult to get up than it was before the earth stopped.

Answer 7

You'd go air borne....in the eastern direction.

IOW, momentum would carry you and everything else not attached securely to the earth in an easterly direction.

However, you wouldn't get too far before crashing into something.

Answer 8

For as fast as the earth is spinning I think we would all go flying!

Answer 9

I would say that the side not facing the sun would suffer drastically, I dunno,lol...but yeah hope that like never happens