What if the Earth stopped spinning?
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Michael Stevens of Vsauce looks at what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning. He also explores how we construct time as a function of the Earth's rotation and why atomic clocks are so precise.
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When you jump in the air, why doesn't the Earth continue to spin?
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