Deterioration to the Earth's rotation?
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The earth's rotation does slow down, but not\ndue to the reason you are stating... gravitational\npull of the moon and sun causes more mass to move\ncloser to the surface over time. When an ice-skater\ntwirls around, if the pull in their arms to their\nsides they spin faster, when they push their arms\nout they slow down - in the same way, the earth\nis slowing down, but only by about 1 second per\nseveral years, which is adjusted for by adding\na leap-second from time to time to the atomic \nclock.\n\nThe earthquake in Sumatra on 26-Dec-04 resulted\nin a massive chunk of the ocean floor collapsing\ndown (closer to the earth's center), which caused\na measurable speeding up of the earth's rotation.\nThis was, however, not sufficient to compensate\nfor the otherwise slowing down trend, and only\nmade the adding of a leap-second get delayed...
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Yes, earth is moving closer to sun every year, and eventually it will get destroyed one day. But still thousands of years are left for this to happen.
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Earth is revolving in orbit, held in place by the Sun's gravitational pull
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No it is not because of the Earth's tilt
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The gravitational attraction and earth’s rotation had made the earth’s shape into an ellipsoid of revolution.\n\nThe result is the equatorial radius of the Earth is 21.7 km more than the polar radius.\n\nSince the forces due to rotation of earth have already changed the shape, we need not take into account the rotational effect for calculating the weight. At every place on earth the force is normal to the surface.\n\nSince the polar radius is shorter than the equatorial radius g at pole is greater than at the equator.
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Yes the moon is getting further away from us each year at a rate of aboout 4 centimetres a year.  The moon helps stabilise the Earth's rotation and stops us "flopping around".  In 2 billion years the moon will have moved far enough away to loose its influence.  The effect of this on the Earth is not known.
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The axis of the earth shifts seasonally.
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No, the precession of the Earth's axis has nothing to do with global warming. Not sure what you mean by "wobble", but the nutation and pole travel are too small to be significant, and the nutation in any case is a repeating 19-year motion.
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No. If the Earth suddenly came to a stop and started orbiting the sun in the opposite direction it would probably kill us all. Inertia is not your friend.
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None of us would have to worry about what we going to do the next day because we would all be dead.\n\nWhat would happen if the Earth stopped spinning?\nThe probability for such an event is practically zero in the next few billion years. If the Earth stopped spinning suddenly, the atmosphere would still be in motion with the Earth's original 1100 mile per hour rotation speed at the equator. All of the land masses would be scoured clean of anything not attached to bedrock. This means rocks, topsoil, trees, buildings, your pet dog, and so on, would be swept away into the atmosphere. \n\nIf the process happened gradually over billions of years, the situation would be very different, and it is this possibility which is the most likely as the constant torquing of the Sun and Moon upon the Earth finally reaches it's conclusion. If the rotation period slowed to 1 rotation every 365 days a condition called 'sun synchronous', every spot in the Earth would have permanent daytime or nighttime all year long. This is similar to the situation on the Moon where for 2 weeks the front-side is illuminated by the Sun, and for 2 weeks the back side is illuminated. This situation for the Earth is not the condition of 'stopped' rotation, but it is as close as the laws of physics will let the Earth get. \n\n \n\nIf it stopped spinning completely...not even once every 365 days, you would get 1/2 year daylight and 1/2 year nightime. During daytime for 6 months, the surface temperature would depend on your latitude, being far hotter that it is now at the equator than at the poles where the light rays are more slanted and heating efficiency is lower. This long-term temperature gradient would alter the atmospheric wind circulation pattern so that the air would move from the equator to the poles rather than in wind systems parallel to the equator like they are now. The yearly change in the Sun's position in the sky would now be just its seasonal motion up and down the sky towards the south due to the orbit of the Earth and its axial tilt. As you moved along constant lines of Earth latitude, you would see the elevation of the Sun increase or decrease in the sky just as we now see the elevation of the Sun change from a single point on the Earth due to the Earth's daily rotation. \n\nFor example, if you were at a latitude of +24 degrees North in the Summer and at a longitude where the Sun was exactly overhead, it would slide gradually to the horizon as Fall approached, but since the Sun has moved 90 degrees in its orbit, it would now be due west. Then as we approach Winter, you would now be located on the dark side of the Earth, and would have to travel in longitude to a location 180 degrees around the Earth to see the Sun 1/2 way up the sky because in the Winter, the Sun is 48 degrees south of its summer location in the sky. It's a little confusing, but if you use a globe of the Earth and orient it the right way, you can see how all this works out. \n\nAs for other effects, presumably the magnetic field of the Earth is generated by a dynamo effect that involves its rotation. If the Earth stopped rotating, it's magnetic field would no longer be regenerated and it would decay away to some low, residual value due to the very small component which is 'fossilized' in its iron-rich rocks. There would be no more 'northern lights' and the Van Allen radiation belts would probably vanish, as would our protection from cosmic rays and other high-energy particles. This is a significant biohazard.
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Time is unconnected to the Earth.  The only immediately noticeable differences between normal Earth and a backward rotating Earth (NOT counting the moment during which the Earth stops spinning) is that water will circulate in the opposite direction in the ocean, counterclockwise instead of clockwise, and storms will rotate across the Earth in a different directional tendency.
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In theory it affects the passage of time aboard the vessel IF it travels in the opposite direction of the earth's rotation... I suggest you read some Stephen Hawking.
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we would notice a change right away, the direction and position of where the sun's rays hit are what cause our temperature differences. if we had a drastic 90 degree turn in our axis it would throw off our global climate over the course of a few decades. changes would happen drastically however, and until things settled down over those decades or even centuries we would be in a state of climate-chaos
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Well this is a 12 year old talking\n\n\nUmm maybe not since magnetic isnt gonna move anything non magnetic and soon the earth's rotation will stop because of friction accually it started when earth was created\n\nNote: A billion years ago it was 21 hours a day
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Yes, Earth's rotation gradually slows down due mainly to tidal friction caused by the gravity of (mainly) the Moon (since it's very close) and the Sun (since it's very massive). It was as low as 10 hours 3 to 4 billions of years ago.
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300 million years ago the day was about 22 hrs long. Earths rotation is getting slower and the days will be getting longer. This is because of the tidal forces between the earth and the moon. Earths oceans are being pulled on by the moons gravity. But as the moon moves in its orbit the oceans cant follow in a nice bulge because of the continents. So the oceans form another gravitaional centre offset from the center of the earth. This out-of sync tug is whats making the moon move farther away from the earth. The same force is slowing the earhts rotation. The moon is moving away from the earth by a couple of cms/year. How much longer the day gets each year I cant remember. It´s in the neighbourhood of nanoseconds. A leap second was acutally added to 2005.
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Earth's magnetic field is fading. Today it is about 10 percent weaker than it was when German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss started keeping tabs on it in 1845, scientists say. \n\nIf the trend continues, the field may collapse altogether and then reverse. Compasses would point south instead of north.