The consequences are less dire if you're farther away from the equator; a few tens of kilometers from the poles and you'd just experience a gentle breeze and the odd experience being chased by slow-moving terrain.Baluncore said:All things are relative, all relatives are things, your relatives would get your things.
There are planes which can do it, even at the equator. Nothing special happens, unless you hit something.HeWhoCeases said:But what would happen if for a split second you were no longer caught up in the Earths momentum.
HeWhoCeases said:For example you are standing in the middle of a field and for one second the Earth keeps spinning, but you don't spin along with it.
It would need to have pretty good acceleration and brakes to do it for just one second.A.T. said:There are planes which can do it, even at the equator.
Hahaha!Baluncore said:All things are relative, all relatives are things, your relatives would get your things.
Assuming in the first place that the good ship also stopped moving at the same instant as you.Wminus said:If you were onboard a good ship at sea, you'd be pretty safe though.
Baluncore said:Assuming in the first place that the good ship also stopped moving at the same instant as you.
Being at sea would worry me in those conditions. The hull speed of a boat is related to it's length and the wave making characteristics. In the region of the hull speed, the bow lifts and the stern settles into a hole below sea level. The view from the stern of a destroyer at top speed can be intimidating as you are below sea level with the stern wave breaking above you. More power will not push you much faster, it will just make the bow wave higher and the hole deeper until you sink stern first.
The percussion wave from a sea mine destroys hulls efficiently. I expect the dynamic pressure of water against the hull at Earth rotation speed would destroy the hull integrity and remove the propellers pretty much instantly.
If you were heading west as you stopped, the dynamic pressure of the moving water on the bow would become;
Pa = ½ · 1000 kg/m3 · v2.
At latitude 45°, the water speed will be about 0.7071 * 40k km/day = 1600 km/hour = 445 m/sec.
That gives a dynamic pressure of; Pa = 100 MPa = 14,500 psi or 1000 atmospheres.
Better you than me.
They would ring the Lutine Bell at Lloyd's in London only once.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Lutine_(1779)#The_Lutine_Bell
If a supertanker was found on the floor of the Atlantic, at latitude 45°, with the front 445 m crushed flat, would we entertain for even one second, the idea that the ship had suffered a 1 second loss of momentum, while on a course due west ?Wminus said:And by the way, you're totally right that hull integrity would be completely lost.
The Earth's rotation is caused by its initial angular momentum from its formation and the gravitational pull of the Sun and Moon.
The Earth rotates at a constant speed of approximately 1,000 miles per hour at the equator, but the speed decreases as you move towards the poles.
If you were left behind on a spinning Earth, you would feel as if you were standing still due to the Earth's constant speed. However, you would experience a slight shift in your weight and balance as the Earth's rotation changes your position relative to its center of gravity.
No, the Earth would continue to spin even if all living beings disappeared. The Earth's rotation is not dependent on the presence of living beings, but rather on its own inertia and gravitational forces.
The Earth's spin cannot be stopped or reversed by any known natural means. However, hypothetically, a very large and sudden external force, such as a collision with a massive object, could potentially alter the Earth's rotation.