What will happen if thew earth stops rotating on its axis as it continues to revolve around the sun?

Answer 1

There are two circumstances:

If the Moon circled the Earth in the same direction (east to west), there would be overall directional changes:

-- The sun, moon, and stars would all appear to rise in the west and set in the east.

-- The sequence of the constellations of the Zodiac would be reversed.

-- There would be substantial changes in the world's climate zones.

a) In the northern hemisphere, low-pressure systems would rotate to the right, and high-pressure systems would rotate to the left.

b) In the northern hemisphere, the jet stream would blow from east to west, weather systems would move across the US from the east coast toward the west coast, an eastbound commercial flight would take longer than the return flight, the east face of the Rockies would be the wet, fertile side, the winds in the tropics would prevail from the east, and all the Divi Divi trees on Aruba would lean the other way.

If the Moon circled the Earth in the direction it does now, becoming the opposite of the rotation of the Earth.

-- In the short term, the Moon would cross the sky in less time than the Sun, instead of taking slightly longer. The tides would be greatly altered, not only because of the change in how they were affected by topography.

-- In the long term, it would probably result in either a collision with the Earth or a near miss that would eject the Moon from Earth orbit. The drag of tidal forces from Earth's gravity would be much greater than it currently is, slowing the Moon in its orbit. Instead of inexorably moving away from Earth as it does now, it would move steadily closer.

Answer 2

What do you mean? Earth rotates already. And u can see the stuff that happens.

When the Earth is rotating the same things happen as are happening now (presumably).

However, should the earth rotate, gardeners (among others) would become very dizzy!

Answer 3

it cannot possible until the sun dies. If sun dies then earth is no more. But you

can think like this. Earth stopes rotating on its own axis the value of g at the

equator will increase.

If the earth is at one fourth of its present distance from the sun, the duration of

the year will be about 1/8 the present year.

Answer 4

It depends on how fast the deceleration is. The Earth standing still would not cause much effect for such a short time, but if it happened quickly, say in 10 seconds, the deceleration forces would be extremely damaging to everything not fixed down, and all west coasts everywhere would be immediately swamped by huge tsunamis.

Answer 5

Gravity would no longer be present and everything that is not fixed to the ground would float off into outer space. Among other things that would not be good for human life on the planet.

Actually the above answer is totally incorrect. Gravity is not just caused by the earth spinning...and the earth spinning is not the major cause of gravity to be present on earth.

If the earth suddenly stopped spinning, then then the earths atmosphere would continue moving at 1000+ miles per hour wiping everything not locked down to bedrock off the earth into the atmosphere. It would cause total devastation on earth. Things wouldn't simply float off.

A more likely scenario would be that the earth slowly stopped spinning over millions of years. In this case we would have six months of dark and six months of light.
If the world stoped turning than there would no longer be a night or day, there would no longer be a axis, well there would but it wouldn't be turning

Answer 6

if earth stopped rotating, we would start flying through the air because of the sudden stop, like when a car stops moving and you almost fly out of your seat. The earth turns around and around very very very fast.

Answer 7

According to me , I feel the time will stop if the earth stops spinning and if the earth starts spinning backwards,then,may be,the time will start reversing backwards . May be the relation between space and time is too complicated but we will soon get the answer.

Answer 8

if the earth stoped rotating then our whole environment would be gone. No magnetic field, and many other things that would make life as we know it impossible. But it would not affect the rest of the universe. PS: Assuming one sidereal rotation per year, one part of the planet would be hot all the time and the other cold, same with night and day. But this would not fit the requirement of stopped rotation. ________________ note: Because earth is orbiting a sun, it's literally impossible for it to stop rotating, even in the imagination. If sidereal rotation stopped, which would be the astronomical understanding of 'no rotation', the earth would still rotate once a year relative to the sun, which is after all the center of our solar system. Although this might properly be considered an 'apparent' rotation, and not a 'true' rotation. The day would be one year long and every part of the earth would experience night and day. And most weird, the sun would rise in the west and set in the east. The apparent rotation would be 'retrograde' relative to the other planets. Think carefully about this and you will see that it is true. This scenario is probably impossible as long as the moon continues to exist; the moon would at the very least exert some tidal pull on the earth in the direction of its current rotation. If on the other hand the earth were tidally locked with the sun (a fate that every sun-orbiting body would eventually succumb to given enough time), the condition assumed in the answer above, then there would be one sidereal rotation per year and the earth's rotation would be analogous to the moon's rotation once per synodic cycle. One face of the earth would always orient toward the sun. In the tidally locked scenario, there would probably be some serious implications regarding where the moon would have to be and what it's movement would be like. Perhaps the moon would have to be far enough away from earth so that its tidally locked orbit would be equal in length to earth's year, causing the odd situation that observers from earth would always see the same unchanging phase of the moon [see discussion], and the moon would only be visible from one part of earth much the way that earth is only visible from the part of the moon that faces us. And without the gyroscopic orientation that our spin gives us, there would be some serious and hard to predict perturbations in earth's movement caused by neighboring planets and tidal forces from the sun, moon and other bodies. There would still be gravity which is a function of mass, and I don't really have a clue how or if earth's magnetic field would be affected. If the magnetic field is disrupted, then the protection it gives us against bombardment from solar winds/particles would be compromised. Surely, life as we know it would be seriously stressed or ended.
A day would be a year long - and almost everything would die.

Answer 9

If the earth stopped rotating about its axis, yet remained in orbit about the sun, then a few interesting circumstances would result. First, there would be a prolonged exposure to the sun on the surface of the earth. Without rotation the earth's surface would not experience the usual cyclical temperature variance. This would mean that the days would be a year long, and extreme temperature variance between the side of the earth facing the sun and the dark side would result, frying everything on the sunny side, and freezing everything on the dark side. Needless to say, life could not possibly exist in such a hostile environment and every living thing would soon die in a matter of weeks. Oceans would be evaporated on the sunny side and relocated and frozen on the dark side. Torrential winds would result from the extreme temperature variances and cause massive surface erosion. The Earth would begin to look like a desert wasteland on one side and a frozen Iceland on the other. Also if the earth stopped rotating then its molten core would soon slow down within the earth and the Earth's magnetic field would gradually be reduced to nothing. Then, in the absence of this precious magnetic field, the Earth would be heavily bombarded by cosmic radiation and high energy particles from the Sun, making any kind of life impossible as it would be irradiated, stripped of it's electrons, and baked to death! It is humbling to consider just how perfect the conditions are on earth for life to exist. Some preferr to say it is a remarkable stroke of luck! Others, myself included, are not intimidated to invoke an intelligence as the primary causality!

Answer 10

half of the planet would be in constant day time while the other in constant night time. The same thing would happen with the seasons and one would be in a warmer season while the other in a colder season always. I'm sure a bunch of other stuff would happen too but those are two pretty big ones.