What would happen if the earth stopped moving?

Question

what would happen if the Earth stopped moving gradully?

like if it gradually slowed down, what would happen to the people, mountains and such?

and what would happen if the earth stopped right away?

like instantly. BOOM!

no warning. just stop....?

Answer 1

a c**p load of bad stuff would happen.

If we stopped moving, that would mean our core must have gotten messed up too, and that molten  metal core deep in the earth that is constantly churning is what gives us our magnetic fields that protect us from the solar winds. Without that core, hence without that magnetic field, our earth would look like Mars.

Scientists believe Mars once resembled the earth, but since it had no magnetic field to protect it, the solar winds ravaged the planet and now it's uninhabitable (so far to our findings)

Answer 2

If it stopped moving gradually we probably wouldnt notice it as much, that one is a puzzler, but one side of the earth would become incredibly hot and the other too cold.

If it just stopped we would all shoot in the direction it used to be spinning at incredible speed. Imagine stading up inside a car that brakes really fast, magnified by a billion. It could also cause giant tidal waves as most of the ocean keeps on moving and blowing wind at record speeds as it moves too.

Bottom line:

WE DIE

Answer 3

spin or around the sun,

Spin stops, sun side burns, dark freezes and horrible storms near the boundary.

around the sun stops we fall into the sun...

Answer 4

Just to specify the speed we would shoot at, 464 m/s at the equator, for it's rotation.   Faster than the speed of sound.

Answer 5

There would not be day and night. and the side facing the sun would burn down to ashes. the other side would be dark and freeze. so? we'd be like other planets. arid and dry without any kind of life.

Answer 6

what kind of question do you ask ??????????

Answer 7

If the earth's rotation slowed to once per year (so that the same side always faced the sun), and it happened slowly enough that we didn't all go flying (I guess folks at the poles would survive that one), then the "day" side of the world would get hot and the "night" side of the world would get cold.  Along near the neverending sunrise/sunset, there would probably be lots of extreme weather from the constant mixing of hot and cold air.

Answer 8

I've retracted my answer, and come back with another that is correct, I'm in the process of writing it now...

Answer 9

if gradual enough you won't feel it,if suddenly imagine you are setting the land speed record in the worlds fastest car at top speed and you step out of the car.............tom