What if the Earth stopped spinning? LEARN MORE BELOW! follow Michael Stevens: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce instagram: http://instagram.com/electricpants facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VsauceGaming Courtly Love "Mirage": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv_CSShi1vU music by: https://www.youtube.com/user/jakechudnow Faster Earth-spin physics: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=310 http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=603143 http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=403191 If Earth stopped spinning: http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0610/nospin.html http://astrobob.areavoices.com/2013/07/30/if-the-earth-stops-spinning-wed-be-in-big-trouble/ http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/q1168.html http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q2947.html http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/what-if/what-if-earth-stopped-spinning.htm http://www.spaceanswers.com/solar-system/what-would-happen-if-the-earth-stopped-spinning/ https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=322 human dimensions: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~loebinfo/loebinfo/Proportions/humanfigure.html If Earth stopped spinning VIDEOS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7kubIYu69c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr_aEHXfC70 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH3bmG-KjvU Why does Earth rotate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQxeutcYP6I http://www.universetoday.com/14491/why-does-the-earth-rotate/ http://blog.tiaan.com/link/2010/05/04/simulation-space-debris-forming-accretion-disk centripetal vs centrifugal: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/corf.html http://xkcd.com/123/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAfg_8OLjvs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force_(rotating_reference_frame)#Earth http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/physics/phys06/bartgrav/default.htm http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=16 comics: http://i.imgur.com/yRxXg.png http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=351 atomic clocks: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp50/primary-frequency-standards.cfm http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/acloc.html http://archive.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/obj/inms-ienm/images/research_images/cesium_clock_e/energyleveldiagram.gif time: http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/358609/where-time-comes-from/ http://travel.fyicenter.com/Time_Zone/What_Are_UTC_UT_and_GMT.php http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp50/leapsecond.cfm http://www.bipm.org/en/scientific/tai/clock_comparisons.html http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast350/timesys.html Earth slowing down and unstable: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bad-weather-makes-day-long/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluctuations_in_the_length_of_day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_rotation Earth footage: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=79803 http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/ https://archive.org/details/SVS-1375 Earth and ocean animation by https://twitter.com/RoryBinks People flailing animation by Eric Langley