I'm curious to know what would happen.
2007-09-03 03:10:01 · 13 answers · asked by BaddaBaddaBing 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
if the earth stopped spinning, this means that there is no more gravitational interaction between the earth and to any other heavenly bodies. and using F = G m1m2 / r^2, this means that the moon would be infinitely away from the earth so that F=0. and that case, any other heavenly bodies would be infinetely away from the earth. imagine that, no more sun that would make life on earth possible. ;p
2007-09-03 03:28:20 · answer #1 · answered by tensaichemist 2 · 0⤊ 6⤋
You mean suddenly? we would be thrown to the air and fall a few miles east.
like the guy above me said, life would be limited to the fringe between the hot and the cold side of the planet, but im sure that part will be prone to hurricanes and storms caused by the hot and cold air meeting.
We would be a tad heavier, because there is no more centrifugal force, and the earth would with time become a perfect sphere (it is currently a geoid, and im not counting geographycal features)
tides would cycle monthly, because without the earth spinning, the moon orbits it once a month.
2007-09-03 18:17:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
First think about a circumstance in which so much kinetic energy will get dissipated.
one things can obviously stop this spin. a heavenly collision with a other body from appropriate angle and with sufficient momentum.
If this happens life will end. The other side effect will be :-There will be 6 month long day and equal night.
2007-09-03 10:26:08 · answer #3 · answered by deepak 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, we'd all be flung down on the ground and skid until we were no more than a long, red smudge. At the equator it would be the same as hitting the ground at nearly 1000 mph.
Perhaps 600 mph at, say, Wahsington DC or St Louis. A bit less in Europe, but still nasty.
All of our buildings would snap off and do pretty much the same thing.
Then the oceans would scour everything clean.
I suppose there's more, but that's about as far as my speculations go.
It wouldn't be much fun.
2007-09-03 10:27:42 · answer #4 · answered by Robert K 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow... its amazing how many people think gravity has something to do with Earth's rotation. One guy even put up the force of gravity equation... which I'd like someone to tell me where in there rotation is represented.
Gravity depends only on two things- mass and distance. Rotation has nothing to do with it.
If Earth didn't rotate, our day would be one year long, and the sun would rise in the west and set in the east. I do not think our world could survive such a thing.
2007-09-03 15:36:58 · answer #5 · answered by Arkalius 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Part of it would be really cold, and part of it would be really hot. Life would be limited to the fringe between the parts.
2007-09-03 16:21:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth would get extremely hot on the side facing the sun, and extremely cold on the side facing away from the sun. Life as we know it would cease to exist
2007-09-03 10:19:51 · answer #7 · answered by fuzzy_one 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Calculate the power to stop it and U will get an idea of how stupid the question is.
2007-09-03 11:23:20 · answer #8 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Life as we know it would cease to exist.
2007-09-03 12:52:35 · answer #9 · answered by stargrazer 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the life will come to the end
2007-09-03 10:24:34 · answer #10 · answered by pooh 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋