What would happen if the Earth stopped turning?

[shadowshiv]

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[Praxius]

Thankfully, the probability of the Earth suddenly stopping spinning is "practically zero" for the next few billion years.

God - "Spinning Spinning Spinning Spinning..... always spinning..... Hmmmmmmmmm....."

 

[Dexter Sinister]

A decrease in spin would follow a decrease in current which would mean a decrease in gravity which would mean succeeding generations of organisms would grow larger. But stopping is not an option. Of course all the other spinning celestial bodies in this solar system would speed or slow simultaneously, there would be some orbital adjustments as well. There is some history of events much like this however. google Saturn Theory, Saturn was this planets Sun at one time and at another their were two competeing suns our system was at one time a twin star system. There was a whole lot of movin and shakin goin on then. Much of it recorded in history.

That's almost entirely false, but there's no claim in the world of Velikovsky and his imitators so dumb that you won't believe it.

 

[WLDB]

well that was extreme. What would cause the earth to stop spinning though?

Superman

 

[spaminator]

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I will not be blocked!

 

[Tonington]

A sudden stop is simply not possible.

Unlikely, not impossible. The force of the impact has to overcome a lot of inertia to stop the rotation, and it would have to hit the Earth at a very specific trajectory relative to the rotation axis. There are plenty of objects in our vicinity of space large enough to do that.

 

[Praxius]

Unlikely, not impossible. The force of the impact has to overcome a lot of inertia to stop the rotation, and it would have to hit the Earth at a very specific trajectory relative to the rotation axis. There are plenty of objects in our vicinity of space large enough to do that.

Maybe it can just hit along one of the poles so instead of rotating E/W, we can start rotating NE/SW.

That'd be kinda cool.

 

[petros]

If it held together.