How long would humans live if the Earth suddenly stopped spinning? The answer is beyond your expectations

It is often said that time flies by when you are happy. In fact, over the past hundred years, our days have actually gotten longer. The earth is spinning at 1,000 miles per hour every moment, giving us the alternation of day and night.

So the question is, why does the earth rotate? Most scientists believe that in the early days of Earth's formation, a celestial body the size of Mars slammed into Earth. The collision caused the Earth to spin so fast that it only took six hours a day. During the impact, the object merged with a large chunk of Earth's material and eventually formed the moon.

Under the action of gravity, the moon makes the earth form the tides. With each tidal cycle, the water on Earth creates some friction against the Earth's surface. And these frictions make the rotation of the earth slower and slower. And as the Earth's rotation slows down, the Moon gets further and further away from the Earth. Over time, our day has grown from 6 hours to 24 hours. And the moon has receded to about 250,000 miles from Earth. Due to the frictional effects of tides and monsoons, the Earth will one day stop spinning completely.

Suppose the next second, the earth suddenly stops spinning, so what will happen? While Earth stops spinning, the atmosphere continues to spin at Earth's original speed, which creates strong winds and severe storms. Winds that first exceed the speed of an atomic bomb will flatten buildings. Animals and cars will turn into billions of individual ballistic missiles. Momentum and sudden weightlessness near the equator can generate tsunamis thousands of meters high and sweep across continents within minutes.

Since the north and south poles are closer to the center of the earth, there will be stronger gravitational force, which causes all the oceans on the earth to flock to the poles. In the end, two giant oceans, north and south, were formed, and the equator became a supercontinent. As Earth's rotation stops, the plates on Earth slow down at different rates. The resulting friction and collisions caused massive earthquakes around the world. At the same time, the enormous energy in the Earth's core caused the supervolcano to erupt.

Our earth is not actually round, but an oval with a little flat at the poles and a bulge at the equator. As rotation stops, the Earth also becomes more round. Half of the earth is in darkness for 6 months of the year, and the other half is the opposite. Half of the Earth facing the sun gets more heat, and these high temperatures can lead to heavy rainfall, as well as increased weathering. And the other half in the dark, because there is no sunlight, the atmosphere will become a dense gas. It keeps condensing, creating a vacuum and sucking air away from the hot side of the planet. This exchange of hot and cold air can cause superstorms on both sides of the planet, with winds strong enough to blow rocks apart.

And most deadly, the Earth's magnetic field disappeared. Because the Earth's magnetic field is generated by the dynamo effect of the Earth's rotation. It plays a vital role in protecting the Earth from cosmic rays. In addition to giving us a sense of direction, the Earth's magnetic field also ensures our survival by altering the solar wind. Because the solar wind can tear apart the ozone layer, giving us harmful radiation. These deadly and harmful radiations will kill all life on earth.

We humans are a very adaptable species, and over the years, countless disasters have not been eliminated. With the advancement of science, we have mastered powerful technology. But trying to survive on a planet that has stopped spinning is still a huge challenge! Fortunately, Earth's deceleration is super slow. Our day today is only 1 millisecond longer than it was 100 years ago. If you count the extra second, it will take 180 million years for a day to grow by an hour. Maybe human beings will be wiped out by other disasters before the day the earth stops spinning.

In fact, in the vast universe, there are too many unknown things and too many mysteries waiting for us to answer them one by one. Compared with the vast universe, the earth seems so small and insignificant. The existence of Earth is a miracle in itself. And your appearance is a miracle among miracles. Life is very short, so in this limited time, should you cherish everything in front of you and live every day and every second seriously?