What would happen if the Earth stops?
This question is the most common and is also very easy to explain, no less interesting. In addition, several times our readers have formulated it to us, reason why retaking our section of "Questions and answers", today I am going to answer the question about what would happen if the Earth stops.
If the Earth stopped spinning now ... you would fly away
The fact that the Earth turns on its own axis is a great obviousness for any of us, but what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning in this way? Well, first of all, at the moment of the stop, everything that would be on the surface would receive an impulse that would put everything in a kind of ballistic trajectory and send everything to any side.
To better understand the concept, think about what happens while you are traveling in a car. Well, while you are there, you do not notice that you are moving in the way that you are really doing it, you do it when you stop or when you suffer an impact, for example. For something similar happens with our planet, all the time we are moving in space at an incredible speed of 1,674.4 km / h at the equator, although we do not really realize it.
So if the Earth stopped spinning on its own axis immediately and by inertia and centrifugal force, we would all literally fly through the air at high speeds, shot in any direction, causing tremendous damage, catastrophic and unimaginable. Can you imagine the oceans rising in the air at more than 1600 km / h?
Second, the turn to which we refer is responsible for day and night, so we would stop conceiving the passage of time as we do today and the most obvious change would be that the days would last a lot, but much more than that last now, more precisely: one day would last almost a year, that is, for us at this moment they last 365. The Earth rotates on its own axis for 24 hours to return to the same position while it is also orbiting the Sun, but if it stopped spinning, it would take no less than 8760 hours to return to the same position by completing an entire round around the Sun, that is 365 days of light ... forever, year after year or rather, day after day.
Return to give free rein to your imagination, what do you think an eternal winter night and tremendous cold or quite the opposite? Everything would be an absolute chaos, the animals would be totally out of control and the plants would suffer terrible consequences. If we think about it a bit, the world would be a kind of pole, where there are 6 months of darkness and another 6 of light, only that eternally.
The Earth would become a perfect sphere
While it is very difficult to find an accurate representation of the shape of the Earth, we know that this planet is not round or circular, but is similar to an oblate sphere with flattened poles, precisely because of the movements it performs. If I stopped doing them, then the Earth would be a perfect sphere. Sure, it does not compare to the catastrophes of the previous points, right?
Yes, you are not using your imagination well ... If the Earth took a perfect sphere shape, the oceans would be redistributed on the planet, flooding immense tracts of land, especially kilometers and kilometers of coastal cities. It should be noted that coastal cities, in turn, are the largest and most populated in the world.
As surprising and interesting as it is terrifying, do not you think? How about? Do you realize how insignificant we really are? What other things do you imagine that could happen if the Earth stops and what chances of survival do you think our species would have? One last detail: there is nothing to fear, because it is impossible that something like this will happen
