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Homework Statement
I do not know if this is the right forum to be asking this, but it is the best i have found.
A classmate of mine came with the statement that if the Earth stopped spinning we would all float off to space because the Earth's mass is to small to able to hold everyone down.
I am reluctant to believe this as my limited understanding of physics says that mass is the decider of the strength of gravity, not that it need to rotate aswell.
The question is, if the Earth and everyone on it lost its momentum. would we still be on earth? or would we float out to space.
This question is not taking into consideration that we would either freeze or burn since the sun would cook one side and the other side would freeze. (please correct me on this if i am wrong.)