If the earth is spinning

Get the front passenger in your car to throw a ball up as you drive along in your car. Does it go straight up and down or shoot to the back at 50 mph?

Is this a variation on flat earth nonsense?

If only you had access to some kind of electronic device that you could type these questions into and get answers from reputable sources.

That's just the same question not an explanation.

its because if you jump in the air your jumping up and in the direction of the earths rotation. same reason why if you jump in a moving train you land on the same spot relative to the train but in a different spot relative to the surface

We don't fly off because the earth is spinning slowly and the gravitational pull of the earth is great enough to keep us stuck to the earth. If there were no gravitational force, you would fly off. Or if the earth were spinning faster, you would fly off.

You would get dizzy standing on the poles if a day was 2 seconds long.

If you were at the equator and ran north, and long jumped, then you would not land exactly north of where you took off. The rotation of the earth, while you are in the air, would cause you to move west a little bit. It would be noticeable if you could run 1000 mph.

This seems like something a frequent poster here would unleash on the boards, although he’d make it insufferable by referring to himself as a “genius” after conjuring it up and then grafting a lot more nonsense onto it.

Go to school and learn something.

Get a book and read something.

I do both of those things :). I don't think the full answers to these questions are easy, personally.

Genius doesn't matter, someone could be a genius and get it completely wrong surely?

I hope it isn't nonsense?

The Earth is spinning? LOL. You silly goose. I bet you believe in gravity and air, too, don't you?

It is nonsense!

Yes. Flagpole has many aliases.

Don’t think about the speed of the surface of the earth; if everything around you were moving with the same velocity, no matter how fast, you wouldn’t notice anything. What you do notice is acceleration, the rate at which the velocity is changing. For objects in circular motion, like at the surface of a spinning sphere, the thing that determines the acceleration is the angular velocity (for example in radians/second). And even though the speed of the earth’s surface is really high, the angular velocity is REALLY low: (2 pi radians)/(24 hours*3600 seconds/hour). It comes out to about 0.00007 rad/sec. That’s why you don’t notice the rotation.

Why is it nonsense?

Are they not important questions for humankind?

- Gravity keeps everything on the Earth, including you, the oceans, the atmosphere, etc.

- You don't feel the movement because you are moving at the same speed as Earth. You should know that we only feel acceleration and deceleration if you've ever ridden in a car, or train, or plane.

- No. If you could run 1670km/ hour, you would move in that direction at 1670km/hr.

- No. If standing at the pole, you are just standing still relative to Earth.

- No. You would jump up and fall straight back down because you are moving with the Earth.

- In the Ocean, the force of the moving water pushes you with the current, like balloons are pushed by air currents.

Because you don’t know physics and are too lazy to look it up.

km/hour is a measure of linear velocity, and not rotation. The earth rotates once per day.

You don't fly off because escape velocity to overcome gravity is about 40,000 km/hour (ignoring air resistance), and that has to be in the up direction.

If you could run at equal speed in the opposite direction, you would feel a great deal of air resistance. That would feel very unlike a treadmill, unless you installed a large fan in front of the treadmill, creating a steady breeze of 1670 km/h.

If you stood at a pole, and twirled around once per day, you are not likely to get dizzy.

If you jump, that is an interesting question. If we simply think in terms of linear physics, then conservation of momentum means you would land in the same spot. However, the applicable physics is rotational. Conservation of angular momentum means the radius increases slightly, and you would slow down slightly, and land in a slightly different place.

If you are in the sea, the law of angular momentum still applies, and you would not move relative to the water in the sea without any external forces acting on you, or the sea.

Because you are already moving at the same speed as the Earth, since you are stand

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