What would happen to the world if earth stops rotating for a second or two (due to some reason)?

Answer 1

Everything would be crushed. Our angular momentum, caused by the earths rotation, counters the force of gravity. So without it, we would all experience the full force of gravity and be squished.

Answer 2

Many things, plus whatever force it would take to stop it.

The Earth is about 25,000 miles around at the Equator, and it only takes 24 hours to make a complete rotation. So it
s moving over 1,000 miles an hour. What happens when a car is going just 70 miles an hour and suddenly stops moving for a second or two? Like when it hits a brick wall or something?

The other thing is the heat it would generate. All that motion is actually energy, and would transfer into heat. Ever have something like a rope slide through your hands and get hot? Same idea, but multiply that times the entire Earth. Total meltdown.

Whatever started it rotating again would have the same effects.

But in reality, anything that put that much energy into stopping or starting the Earth would not just melt it completely, it would spray it across the solar system.

Answer 3

There are only two ways the Earth will stop spinning.

First, is the mechanism of tidal locking. The earth's rotation is, in fact, slowing down via the tidal effects of the moon. And further yet by the sun... but this is a slow, very slow process. We won't be here on earth when that happens. Even if we were, as others noted above, we wouldn't notice much of a difference (gravitationally speaking) in respect to the centripital forces associated with the rotation.

The second would be cataclysmic. An impactor hitting the earth with enough force to stop its rotation. That would require something about the size of the moon hitting us at the perfect angle and, well... no one would be around to discuss it.

Answer 4

Are you referring to Joshua10:12-14? Biblically speaking I think there has been a misinterpretation of what the story or dream was to mean. Scientific theory says that the other spheres will continue to move at 1100 miles an hour and everything that is not firmly attached to bedrock will be blown into outer spheres in a mixed up soup.

Answer 5

Then that day will consist only 23 hours and 58 or 59 seconds

Answer 6

time will stop. the position of day or night and time will remain as it is because the rotation of earth determines time, day and night. rotation around earth if stops, seasonal effects will be changed. possibley gravitational pull may be effected resultin in destruction of everything.

Answer 7

if Earth held together under that kind of stress, then everything ON it would continue to move toward the East at about one thousand miles per hour..... you, me, the tall buildings, the water in the rivers and oceans and lakes, cars, trains, loose boulders, the sand from beaches, ........ anything that could move, would.....

Answer 8

our angular motion will stop, time will stop its moving

Answer 9

It will not exist

Answer 10

In one word-------DISASTER