We are all inhabitants of the most beautiful planet inThe universe, it is called "blue" because of the abundance of water. It is the only one in the Solar System, but all good things end sooner or later. Have you ever wondered if the Earth stops, what will happen? We will try to answer this question in this article.
Still from the time of school, they know that ourthe earth is in the shape of a ball and rotates around its axis. It is also in continuous motion around our source of heat and light, the sun. But what is the reason for the rotation of the Earth?
All these questions are quite interesting, for sureat least once in this life every inhabitant of our planet wondered. The school course gives us little information of this kind. For example, we all know that as a result of the movement of the Earth, we are changing day and night, maintaining the temperature of the air, which is familiar to all of us. But all this is not enough, because not only this process is limited to this.
So, we figured out that our planetalways in motion, but why and with what speed does the earth rotate? It is important to know that all the planets in the solar system rotate at a certain speed, and all in one direction. Coincidence? Of course not!
Long before the appearance of manour planet, it originated in a hydrogen cloud. After that, there was a strong push, as a result of which the cloud began to rotate. In order to answer the question “why,” we recall that each particle, when passing through a vacuum, has its own inertia, and all particles balance it.
So the whole solar system is spinning faster and faster. From this our Sun was formed, and then all the other planets, and those very motions were inherited from the star.
This question interests scientists and now, there are many hypotheses, but we give the most plausible.
So, we have already said in the previous paragraph that allThe solar system was formed from the accumulation of "garbage", which plucked up as a result of the fact that the young, at that time, the Sun attracted it. Despite the fact that its main mass and went to our sun, still formed around the planet. Initially, they did not have the usual form.
Sometimes, colliding with objects, they collapsed, but had the ability to attract smaller particles, and gained their mass. Our planet was driven by several factors:
And the last is not a mistake, then the Earth was likeform of snow, molded by a small child. The irregular shape made the planet unstable, it was exposed to the wind and the radiation of the sun. Despite this, the Earth emerged from an unbalanced position and began to spin, pushed by the same factors. In short, our planet is not moving itself, but it was pushed many billions of years ago. We did not specify how fast the earth rotates. She is always in motion. And in nearly twenty-four hours makes a complete rotation around its axis. This movement is called the daily. The rotation speed is not the same everywhere. So at the equator, it is about 1670 kilometers per hour, and the North and South Poles may remain in place altogether.
But besides this, our planet is still moving andanother trajectory. A complete revolution of the Earth around the Sun occurs in three hundred and sixty-five days and five hours. This explains the fact that there is a leap year, that is, there is one more day in it.
If the Earth stops, what will happen?To begin with, the stop can be viewed both around its axis and around the Sun. We will analyze all options in more detail. In this chapter we discuss some general points, and is it even possible?
Если рассматривать резкую остановку вращения Earth around its axis, it is practically not realistic. This can only lead to a collision with a large object. Immediately, we’ll clarify that there will be no difference anymore, whether the planet rotates or flew away from its orbit altogether, as a stop can cause such a large object that the Earth simply cannot withstand such a blow.
If the Earth stops, what will happen? If a sharp stop is practically impossible, then slow braking is quite real. Although it is not felt, but our planet and so gradually slows down.
If we talk about flying around the sun, thenThe stop of the planet in this case is something from the realm of fantasy. But we will drop all probabilities and assume that it did happen. We offer you to disassemble each case separately.
Although this option is hypothetically impossible, but westill assume. If the Earth stops, what will happen? The speed of our planet is so great that an abrupt halt, for whatever reason, will simply blow everything away.
For a start, in which direction does the earth rotate?From West to East at a speed of more than five hundred meters per second. From this we can assume that everything that moves on the planet and continues its movement at a speed of more than 1.5 thousand kilometers per hour. The wind that will blow at the same speed will cause the strongest tsunami. On one hemisphere there will be six months a day, and then, those who do not burn the highest temperature, will finish half a year of severe frost and night. And what if they remain alive after that? They will be destroyed by radiation. In addition, after the Earth stops, our core will take a few more turns, while volcanoes will erupt in places where they have not met before.
The atmosphere also does not stop its movement instantly, that is, there will be wind blowing at a speed of 500 meters per second. In addition, a partial loss of the atmosphere is possible.
This catastrophe option is the best outcome forof mankind, because everything will happen so quickly that no one will just have time to come to his senses, will not understand what is happening. Since the most likely result is an explosion of the planet. Another thing is the slow and gradual stopping of the planet.
For many, the first thing that comes to mind is an eternal day on one side, and an eternal night on the other, but this is not really a big problem compared to the others.
Our planet is slowing its rotation, scientiststhey say that a person will not find her complete stop, as it will happen in billions of years, and long before that the Sun will increase in volume and simply burn the Earth. But, nevertheless, we will simulate a stopping situation in the foreseeable future. Just to begin with, let's look at the question: why is there a slow stop?
Earlier a day on our planet lasted approximatelysix hours, and this factor is strongly affected by the moon. But how? It causes water to oscillate with its gravitational force, and as a result of this process a slow stop occurs.
We are waiting for the eternal night or the eternal day on one of the hemispheres, but this is not the greatest trouble, compared with the redistribution of land and ocean, which will lead to the mass destruction of all living things.
Where there will be sun, all plants graduallyextinct, and the soil cracked by drought, but the other side is snow tundra. The area most suitable for habitat will be intermediate where there will be an eternal sunrise or a sunset. At the same time, these territories will be rather small. Land will be located only at the equator. The North and South Poles will be two large oceans.
Not an exception is that a person will need to adapt to exist in the ground, and for walking on the surface, spacesuits will be needed.
This script is simple, everything that was onthe front side will fly away into the free space of space, because our planet is moving at a very high speed, while others will receive a equally strong blow to the earth.
Even if the Earth will gradually slow down itsmovement, then in the end it will fall on the Sun, and this whole process will take sixty-five days, but no one will live to the last, as the temperature will be about three thousand degrees Celsius. If you believe the calculations of scientists, then in a month on our planet the temperature will reach 50 degrees.
This scenario is practically unreal, but the absorption of the Earth by the Sun is a fact that cannot be avoided, but humanity will not be able to catch this day.
This is the most fantastic option.No, we will not go on a journey through space, because there are laws of physics. If at least one planet from the Solar System flies off from orbit, then it will bring chaos in the movement of all the others, eventually falling into the "paws" of the Sun, which will swallow it, attracting with its mass.
