Would we see changes on the planet Earth if it suddenly started rotating in the opposite direction?
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Ok lets look at the instant effects. The Earth is spinning at 1047 mph. If we were to suddenly switch directions our acceleration would be Huge! So how much is suddenly... 1 second? That means that it would be a whoping 2094miles/second^2 (if it was the same thats the same as slamming the breaks so it must be double if your going in full reverse). So you think we would go flying into space right? Partly We would be crushed instantly. Why? The Human body can only survive 12G's thats 12x the acceleration of gravity before we are crushed. The acceleration that would be experienced would be a little over 343874G's. We would be paper thin before we even cared about where we ended up.\nTo all those people who may see a mistake, if any, in my math, sorry.
634899
I don't know of one. Observations could be explained by having the Earth fixed and the Sun orbiting it. It's just that our laws of physics would have to change.
57004
The Earth would lose sea tides and other water tides.  This would mean the sea receding in some parts of the world and flooding in other parts.  I also think that the Earth will "wobble" on its axis and its path of revolution around the sun would change.  That would mean change in the duration of the day and the year, I guess that would mean toal destruction.
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The seasons would be far milder. There probably still would be some seasonal variations because the earth is not always the same distance from the sun.\n\nAlso, it should be noted that even if the axis of rotation was oriented to be normal to the ecliptic, there is still a 435 day period Chandler Wobble to the earth's axis, caused by redistribution of mass on the earth's surface (and presumably within the earth as well) and the conservation of angular momentum.
415411
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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No!  The stars aren't changing, earth IS.  As the earth revolves, the position of starts and constellations seem to change position in the sky.  Also, you know on some nights, the moon can seem HUGE, like 3 times bigger than normal.  That is the atmosphere magnifying the moon.  The same concept could probably apply to the distortion of constellations.
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The shape and direction of the twist is given by Coriolis effect, which  says since everything is falling to the center of earth, and it is spinning, there developes a curve, just like the one you see on your toilet, as opposite of the one you'd see in other toilet in southern hemisphere (if you are in the northern one)
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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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The direction of draining water is no different in either of Earth's hemispheres. This is a perpetual myth that has no basis in scientific fact. This website provides a good discussion about the whole thing, plus lots of information about the Coriolis Effect itself --\nhttp://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html
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Nothin would happen.\nIf you consider two bodies the earth (name it E) and a large mass (m). \ninitially M rests on E. and you lift mass M. the force used to lift it will also act on E.\nAlso if you consider the mass M and E. as a system force exerted on dropping M would be internal and since internal forces do not cause acc. the Earth will not get unbalanced.\n\nThats good for us isn't it...
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yes it would. that's a very interesting question. I thoght about it a few times myself and i figured that it was because the time reversed it meant that all the life on earth would also.
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Not true unless an abnormal event causes it to be so.  What will happen is that over time the Earth's rotation will slow down till the year and the day are the same amount of time.  Just like the Moon is right now.
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On average, about once every 250,000 years or so Earth's two magnetic poles switch---the north magnetic pole becomes the south magnetic pole, and the south magnetic pole becomes the north magnetic pole. This means, among many other things, that compasses would all point south instead of north.\n\nScience knows that these pole reversals do happen. Some ancient rocks tell the story. In the far distant past these rocks were molten. At those times their interior materials would align themselves to Earth's magnetic field, much the way an electromagnet will. Careful analysis shows that the magnetic lines of force imbedded in these rocks often were directly opposite to Earth's present magnetic field.\n\nThe last pole reversal happened some 700,000 years ago, so we're sort of overdue for another one.
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no.  it changes over millions of years as the universe changes and our relationship to the sun changes, but i'd guess it was pretty close as to what is now.
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Precession! The shape of Earth’s orbit becomes more or less oval (eccentricity), Earth wobbles as it spins (precession), and Earth's axis changes too (tilt). All these changes, over thousands of years, causes Earth's climate to change.
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Because if it went counterclockwise time would be going in reverse? :)
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depends....it always changes.......seeing how the Earth's tilt on its axis changes the distance and the amount of direct and indirect rays from the Sun. You should research it on google or yahoo.