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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Why would the world stop spinning
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He tells us that the earth stoped spinning we would gain weight and be a bullet to the east.
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We would be a bullet to the east. And that is will never happen
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How come when someone is frozen time goes faster for the person inside the ice but if your outsid...
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If the Earth stopped moving?
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How does world spin so fast but we can't see or feel it
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