If the Earth stops rotating on its axis, many things will change, such as humans falling to the ground, humans walking around the entire equator, etc. We know that the Earth's rotation is slowly slowing down, but what if our planet stops rotating on its axis?
Of course, if you suddenly stopped the Earth from rotating, most of our planet would rapidly become very inaccessible. Half the world will almost face the heat of the Sun, while half will face cold.
Life may continue in a narrow region between hot and cold stops, but this area will slowly creep around the planet over one year as the Earth revolves around the Sun.
To determine what will happen if the Earth does not rotate on its axis, let us assume that the oceans do not freeze on the cold side and do not evaporate on the hot side. Let's look at the central power.
Over several billion years, this force, which is forcefully pushed outward, has made the planet a bit thicker in the middle. Therefore, the Earth's diameter measured through the equator today is about 21.4 kilometers more than the Earth's diameter measured through the poles.
But water in the oceans is more rapid and responsive to these powers. So the spin of the Earth has raised this liquid water to an 'unusual' height of about eight kilometers. But today, on the entire equator, the deepest part of the oceans is about 5.75 kilometers.
If the Earth stopped rotating on its axis, then slowly, the oceans would move from the equator towards the poles. First, only small areas of terra pharma around the equator will exit the retreating waters.
With this, you can travel around the Earth on the equator and live on arid land - ignoring the cold of the night and the day's heat.
The water leaving the equatorial regions would have to go elsewhere and go to the pole. In the north, the northern plains of Canada, America, Greenland, Siberia, Asia, and Europe will be underwater, but Spain will remain above water.
On the other side of the equator, the new southern ocean will begin running through present-day Canberra. Africa will join Madagascar, while Australia will join New Guinea and Indonesia.
The underwater base around the South Pole is much larger than that around the North Pole to lower the new Southern Ocean. Its sea level will be about 1.4 kilometers below sea level of the new North Ocean.
Now it is not only the Earth's axis that gave us an indication of the eight-kilometer high rise of water at the equator but also gravity is one of the reasons. The pole is about 10 kilometers closer to the center of the Earth than the equator, so gravity is slightly higher at the poles.
Billions of years before, the quick turning Earth had a massive lump around the equator, and following billions of years later, there would be a little lump in the moderate moving Earth that is probably going to cause the Earth to go round.
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