What would happen if....

[House of Usher]

I don't know. I thought the spinning contributed to the gravity by centrigugal force, but I could be wrong.

[House of Usher]

You're right, Pyroxian. Thanks for that. Some guy called Cecil Adams writes:


"If the earth stopped spinning we would not fall off of it. Despite what a lot of people apparently think, spinning has nothing to do with gravity, which is a function of the earth's mass.

On the contrary, spinning tends to throw you off the earth. Were the earth to stop spinning, we would be stuck here more firmly than ever. That's because, due to the lack of centrifugal force, you would weigh more."

If only they'd made physics more interesting at school !