Terrible things would happen if the Earth stopped spinning.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – The earth continues to spin like a top that never stops. The Earth rotates the way the Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago.
Just then, a huge cloud of gas and dust collapsed under its own gravity. As this process occurs, the clouds begin to spin. Earth inherited this rotation until now.
Reported from Sputniknews, Earth takes 23 hours and 56 minutes to complete its rotation. Earth is moving at a speed of about 1,100 mph, or 460 meters per second. But what would happen if one day it suddenly stopped spinning? That’s terrible.
Scientists believe the event could occur in 18.5 billion years. To illustrate, imagine a person sitting in a car, driving it at 100 miles per hour and then crashing it into another vehicle without wearing a seat belt.
This is what will happen to every living thing in Earth when the Earth stops rotating. US astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson estimates that if The earth stopped spinning then, anything on Earth will fly east at 460 meters per second.
According to a “mind experiment,” conducted by James Zimbelman, a senior geologist emeritus at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, a stationary Earth will affect our atmosphere. The event can create very strong winds, which will be followed by a large tsunami.
“This is just a thought experiment,” said James Zimbelman, senior geologist emeritus at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington. Live Science, Wednesday (4/8).
The sudden stop will also flatten the bulge at the equator, which will cause the oceans and seas to migrate to the poles. The poles are the regions where gravity is strongest. As a result, our planet will have two super oceans, one in the North and one in the South, with a giant continent in the middle.
A full day will last throughout the year with the inhabitants of the earth seeing the Sun for six months in a row and living another half year in darkness.
The magnetic field will disappear. It will slowly fade away and leave our planet unprotected against the solar wind, deadly cosmic rays, and radiation, which will kill all life on our planet.
– .
