What If Earth Suddenly Stopped Spinning?

Examples

1. Imagine you're sitting in a car that suddenly stops, your body keeps moving forward.
2. If Earth stopped spinning, animals near the equator would be launched east at high speed.
3. People not wearing seatbelts on an airplane might feel similar forces when the plane lands abruptly.

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See also

• What Makes the Moon Always Face Earth?
• What If Earth Stopped Spinning?
• What If We Dug a Tunnel Through the Center of the Earth?
• How do black holes form and what happens inside them?
• What If Earth Were Sucked Into a Black Hole?

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