We just watched the Futurama episodes where alien cats stopped the Earth’s rotation, and they fixed it by making it rotate in the opposite direction.
We just watched the Futurama episodes where alien cats stopped the Earth’s rotation, and they fixed it by making it rotate in the opposite direction.
Would somebody smarter than me take these seeds of an idea and expand on how the physical forces would affect the composition of the Earth? My intuition tells me the shear forces would obliterate the planet, but I’m not sure.
Because of the nature of a sphere, the material rotating at the poles is effectively not moving at all. Whereas the material moving at the equator is moving at the maximum rotational speed of the Earth.
Likewise the core of the Earth is effectively still and the speed of each strata moves correspondingly faster as you get closer to the surface.