NO SPINNING FOR 5 SECS

We're going to come to a screeching halt, so hold on. That's accurate. The Earth's rotation will halt for five seconds. How much harm would this abrupt cessation do? What would you encounter in various regions of the world? Would the Earth still be habitable if it started spinning again? How would this change the cycle of day and night? Why are there powerful winds? What if the world stopped spinning for five seconds? This is what would happen.

In a single day, the earth completes one full rotation on its axis. Thus, we have day and night. Because of events that took place as the planet was developing 4.6 billion years ago, the globe is spinning as a massive gas disk dust and rock particles clumped together as clouds of gas and dust whirled around the sun, creating forces that kept the planet rotating in one direction. With essentially no external factors to slow the planet down, you could think of it as a figure skater spinning faster and faster. This is how the globe will continue to rotate for billions of years. If the world suddenly came to a stop, though, would you just take off like a bird? Even if everything suddenly came to a stop, violent winds would still be blowing because the planet's atmosphere would still be in motion. These winds wouldn't just be strong breezes; they would be many times greater than any storm you've ever experienced .No matter if you were in an open field or a steel-reinforced skyscraper, these winds would destroy you because they would be powerful enough to rip the earth's crust apart.

For comparison, the fastest f5 tornadoes may reach speeds of up to 511 kilometers per hour, and these storms have the power to rend apart concrete buildings in addition to lifting houses off their foundations. Three times as strong winds would be generated by the earth's emergency brake. Consequently, if the crust beneath your feet hadn't crumbled, you and a lot of other objects would probably fly a long way, but not off the face of the planet. The speed required to leave the gravitational pull of the earth and enter space is called the escape velocity, and it is roughly 40 000 km/h. Although the winds would be a little weaker in other regions of the planet, like New Zealand or France, at 1180 kilometers per hour, they would still be far stronger than any storm ever. There would be a lot of destruction from these winds, but they wouldn't be the only danger to watch out for in these five seconds. Our planet bulges near the equator and is not a perfect spherical.

The earth would swiftly become a perfect spherical if rotation halted. All the water accumulating at the equator would flow away in a great tsunami toward the poles. That water would backtrack five seconds later, and a wall of water would slam into everything and everyone twice when the earth resumed its full speed revolution. You must be relieved to hear that the earth has resumed its normal rotation after all this, but as I said, there would be nothing left on it. Every building, every piece of farmland, and every piece of modern technology would be gone. Perhaps the only place you'd be safe in this scenario is near the north or south poles where the wind would be the mildest.

It is predicted that the earth won't come to a stop any time in the next few billion years, although before that the sun would burn out and turn into a red giant but that's a story for another what if. In this terrifying scenario, billions of people, if not every single person on earth, would perish from the brute force of being slammed by the massive gusts of wind. If you want to survive, you'd better start building an underground bunker.