WHAT IF : THE EARTH STOPS ROTATING FOR FIVE SECONDS

What if the earth's rotation were to cease for five seconds? How much harm would this abrupt cessation do? What would you encounter in various locations around the world. Would the earth still be habitable when it starts spinning again? What if the world stopped spinning for five seconds? This is what would happen. In a single day, the earth completes one full rotation around its axis. Thus, we have day and night. When the world was forming 4.6 billion years ago, as a massive disc of gas and dust swirled around the sun, dust and rock grains clumped together and produced forces that kept the planet rotating in one direction. It is because of these collisions that the earth is spinning today.

But if the planet suddenly came to a stop, would you just take off like a bird? The atmosphere would still be moving even if the earth came to a sudden stop. That indicates that strong winds would continue to blow even when everything had abruptly stopped, and these winds wouldn't be a strong breeze. They would be much more powerful than any storm you have ever experienced. Now, depending on where you were on the world, the strength of these winds would change.

The earth rotates most quickly at or around the equator. A sixteen hundred and seventy kilometers per hour wind would blow here. You would be blown off your feet by those gusts. However, these winds would be powerful enough to shatter the crust of the world. Therefore, these winds would completely destroy you whether you were outside in a field or inside a structure with steel reinforcement. For reference, it should be noted that the fastest F5 tornadoes can reach speeds of up to 511 kilometers per hour. These storms have the power to uproot homes from their foundations, launch cars into the air, and even destroy concrete buildings.

If the crust under your feet didn't collapse, the winds from the earth's emergency brake would be three times stronger, and you and a lot of other things would probably fly a long way. The escape velocity, or the speed needed to escape the gravitational pull of the earth and enter space, is roughly 40,000 kilometers per hour, but not off the surface of the planet. In other places of the world, such as New Zealand or France, the winds would be a little weaker. However, even at 1180 km/h, these would still be significantly stronger than any storm in recorded history. There would be a lot of destruction from these winds, but they wouldn't be the only danger in these brief moments.

The shape of our globe is not ideal. Due to the centrifugal forces produced by the planet's rotation, it bulges towards the equator. The earth would swiftly become a perfect spherical if rotation halted. All the water accumulating close to the equator would move away in the direction of the poles, causing a huge tsunami. A wall of water would smack into everything five seconds later, when the planet's rotation accelerated back to full speed. Perhaps the north or south poles are the only locations in this scenario where you would be secure. The breeze would be the gentlest here. When the planet returns to its original state, every structure, every plot of land used for agriculture, and every piece of technology would be destroyed. Massive wind gusts would cause billions of people to perish from the power of the impact.However, research indicates that it is unlikely that the world will come to a stop during the next few billion years.