Why is it that when the earth rotates?

Question

how come we CAN'T feel ourselves moving?

Answer 1

A couple of reasons.

First, the Earth is huge compared to us, so we just don't notice the motion. If you take a cruise on a large ocean liner, you don't feel the waves nearly as much as on a small rowboat.

Second, the Earth's rotation doesn't change (at least not enough for us to notice). If you were on a train that was on a perfectly flat and perfectly straight track, you could be going 100 km/hr but you wouldn't know it unless the motion changed (a curve, a bump, a tilt of the track).

Third, believe it or not you can feel the Earth moving if you want to. It takes some focus, but you can.
At night, at a dark site with no city lights to wash out the stars, sit on something solid (like a big rock or the ground). Sit very still and watch the stars - you will see them move (of course very slowly) and its more noticeable if you line up a star with something in the foreground that doesn't move (like a hilltop or building or something).
When you see them move, for a moment you can actually feel the Earth turning.
Very cool.

Answer 2

it relatively is coasting continuously interior the frictionless vacuum of area on the momentum it have been given whilst it became into formed billions of years in the past. there is not any potential source. None is mandatory because of the fact that there is not any friction to sluggish it down. (incredibly, there's a small volume of friction due the the Moon and the tides, and that slows Earth's rotation via an extremely, VERY small fraction of a 2nd each and in line with annum.)

Answer 3

The earth rotates at a constant speed.
Gravity at any one point on it's surface is constant.
You don't feel the small changes in acceleration
that occur over the 24 hour period because the
change is too gradual..

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the Earth's gravitional pull and how a moving feeling like that wouldn't apply to us because of how big we are in proportion to the earth.

Answer 5

Gravity. The gravity pulls us to the center of the earth. And the earth has a slow angular velocity. So yeah its how slow the earth rotates combined with gravity

Answer 6

A lot of the sensation of moving is sensing what around you is NOT moving. When the Earth moves you it moves everything else around you including the atmosphere, with you.

Answer 7

Gravity is sufficient to hold us to the surface, and because everything else rotates at the same speed we don't have a sense of motion -

Answer 8

actually, it would be how big the earth is in proportion to us

Answer 9

it moves to slow to notice thats why.i mile every ahhah i dont know!