Will earth ever stop moving? Why?

Question

pleas help!!!, itis a really hard question

Answer 1

NO.

The Earth is traveling around the Sun at a circular radius of 93,000,000 miles. It makes this trip all the way around the Sun in 365 1/4 Earth Days. There is nothing that can stop an object as heavy as the Earth, moving as fast as the planet Earth.

If the Earth were to stop dead still in space, it would be drawn into the Sun by the Sun's gravity. Nobody wants that to happen. We would all be french fried by radiation and turn into ash way before the Earth even came fairly close to the Sun's surface.

Answer 2

Movement of the earth is relative to other objects.

Will Earth ever stop rotating? Astronomers have proven that Earth's rotation is slowing, but at the current pace it will be billions of years before it slows to the point that the Earth and Moon will be locked in a syncronous rotation/orbit, referred to as "tidal locking". The Moon is already in tidal lock with the Earth. That is why the same face is always towards Earth. Eventually, though, the Earth will also be tidal locked, and the Moon will only be visible from 1/2 of the Earth. By the then the moon will be further from Earth as well. As the Earth slows until 1 day is equal to 47 current days, the energy lost by the Earth is gained by the Moon, speeding it up and sending it to a more distant orbit around Earth. By then life as we know it will probably not exist because having the Sun shine on your home for 607 hrs straight and then enduring 607 hrs of darkness will require some serious adaptation.

Answer 3

I can stop the Earth from moving. Wanna see? There...I just placed the Earth as my inertial frame of reference. Now the Earth isn't moving (from my perspective) and everything around it is.

So in essence, you can't really answer the question "Will the Earth ever stop moving?" because it will always be moving relative to something (unless everything in the Universe stops as well). There simply is no universally stationary frame of reference from which we can define all motion.

In order to stop moving with respect to, say, the Sun, then the Earth would require a force against its current movement. Since there's no air to provide friction, I don't know what could possibly provide that force. Even if the Earth's orbital motion were halted, it would then start to accelerate directly toward the Sun, and that would be bad for us.

Even if the Earth were completely vaporized, its pieces would still be moving around somewhere. So, no, I don't think there's ever going to be any way that you could consider the Earth completely still.

Answer 4

well it isn't really, earth wont stop moving simply because there is nothing to stop it from moving. here on earth we have something that is called friction, it stops and slows things down. when a meteoroid falls from the sky, friction often burns it before it reaches the surface of earth, if it doesn't then it will slow it down. when a car is moving, if you switch the engine off, eventually it will stop because of friction. but in space there is no such thins. if you were to drive a car in space, you would only need one push, the car would never stop nor slow down. it will continue to move at the speed that you pushed it the first time for ever, until it is sucked by a gravity from another object of course.

Answer 5

you're improper. The earth sits firmly fixed to pillars and does not flow. one million Samuel 2:8 For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he set the international on them. one million Chronicles sixteen:30 (NIV) 30 Tremble till now him, each and all the earth! the international is firmly common; it won't be able to be moved. Psalm seventy 5:3 it is I who've firmly set its pillars. Psalm ninety 3:one million The LORD reigns, he's robed in majesty; the LORD is robed in majesty and is armed with potential. the international is firmly common; it won't be able to be moved. Psalm 104:5 (NIV) He set the earth on its foundations; it could by no skill be moved.

Answer 6

In order to slow down there would have to be a force of friction acting n the Earth. There is no force of friction, so it's just going to keep going.

Answer 7

yes once the universe contracts into the big crunch
or when we get sucked in by the sun when it runs out of fuel or if a metor the size of earth hits it and completly destrys it

Answer 8

It will alwwqys be moving with respect to something, if not the sun, then with respect to the center of our galaxy.

Answer 9

no until judgement day comes the world will vanish or go KABOOM

Answer 10

that question dosent really have an answer more or less just belief, it could but not for millions of years...maybe