Why Can't We Feel The Earth Spinning (Explained)

You're currently spinning at about 1,000 miles an hour without even trying! That's how fast the Earth has to turn to make a complete rotation every day. So why can't you feel it? Your stomach goes all topsy-turvy when you spin around on a merry-go-round, and that's a lot slower than 1,000 miles per hour.

You can't feel yourself spinning on Earth for the same reason that you can't feel yourself moving while you're on a train. That's because Earth and the train are both what physicists call "frames of reference." Frames of reference are kind of like perspectives. A person standing on a train has one perspective—one frame of reference—and a person standing on a station platform has another.

just like passengers seated on a train, we don’t have any clues—like wind rushing through our hair—to make us realize how fast we’re going. The air inside the train (and the atmosphere that surrounds our planet) moves along at the same speed we do.

There is one important difference between a train and Earth. When a train slows down or speeds up, we can feel the resulting force on our bodies. That’s because of a basic law of physics: force = mass * acceleration. Your body is the mass, and when acceleration is zero—when the train is moving at a constant speed—there’s no force on your body. You can’t feel it. But when the train changes speed by either accelerating or decelerating, there’s a force (and if you’re standing up, it might just manage to knock you over).

Since most trains don't zip around without ever changing speed, we can actually tell we're in motion quite often. The Earth doesn't ever slow down or speed up. But if it did, oh boy would we feel it! And it would be the same sensation that you get on a slowing train.

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[JessicaZanerealz]

When the earth rotates it truly does make everyone's day.

[tonyparr]

I have felt the Earth's rotation when I was in the Navy and drank way too many Tequila Shooters.

[Theres_No_PlanetB]

But rotation speed does change as you move N/S. So shouldn't we feel that change? No because humans only feel in connection to things around them.

[devontolly]

This stuff is mindblowing when you start thinking about it. unbelievable really

[brunodosreis]

That moment you realize you’ve never really experienced “keeping still” 🤔

[MrUmiramontes]

Short answer is EARTH is stationary, the SUN rotates AROUND THE EARTH!!!

[antonyirungu]

We can't feel it because the earth is flat

[tanablackstana-kahtaurus]

Well I stop watching and listening after.. The Earth has different speed at different parts of the Earth...

[angelrishwanth]

When you think sky is constant and we can feel earth's move.

[colinbrazier]

If I'm on the roof of a bus and jump up I'm definitely coming off

[ruiandrew]

All you need is a bottle of vodka if you want to feel the Earth's rotation.

[Emsyaz]

BS.

If the earth is spinning that fast, it would complete its rotation lesser than 24 hours.

[nessaj]

I still have to understand this .. Because there are spinning floors too. You can't walk while it's rotating. Then we have Earthquakes . We feel those. Or if we spin in a circle ourselves. When you jump rope you stay on the same surface.

[jhnyjoejoe]

You spin me right now baby right now like a record baby right now right now...

[TheWeirdSide]

Best-case scenario,   this is what the future will be like;  dumb humans learning from nice A.I. who is kind enough to make youtube videos for us to watch:)   Worst case...   They put out giant mouse traps with large TV's for bait and we are all dead before sunrise:(

[Arpitthis]

Still its amazing, how everything works so perfectly without any mistake, what's behind all that how it starts? 😵

[sgcwrog]

Have you ever been on an airplane. It doesn't feel like you're moving at all, except for when/ if you experience turbulence. The plane moving 700 miles or so mph !!!!

[argiedeleon]

I can feel the bus moving. If you jump in a bus moving like 40km/h you might fall in same spot but you will be outbalance if you dont grab into something

[gabrielfranciscorp]

If the earth stops or its rotational velocity changes minimally, we will definitely feel it.