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So I had a random thought come to mind today (I've been studying magnetics in general physics lately)...
If you cut the Earth in half, evenly, from pole to pole and allowed the two hemispheres to rotate freely about the plane of the cut, but not to deviate away from each other, what would happen?
In my head I pictured them being two separate magnets, thereby repelling each other, but since they're not allowed (per my assumptions) to move away from each other, the best they could do is rotate 180 degrees about their cut plane such that half the north pole and half the south pole are touching on either "pole" that would exist after.
Thoughts?
If you cut the Earth in half, evenly, from pole to pole and allowed the two hemispheres to rotate freely about the plane of the cut, but not to deviate away from each other, what would happen?
In my head I pictured them being two separate magnets, thereby repelling each other, but since they're not allowed (per my assumptions) to move away from each other, the best they could do is rotate 180 degrees about their cut plane such that half the north pole and half the south pole are touching on either "pole" that would exist after.
Thoughts?