If Earth stopped spinning suddenly, the consequences would be catastrophic. The atmosphere would continue moving at the ...

At the Equator, the earth’s rotational motion is at its fastest, about a thousand miles an hour. If that motion suddenly stopped, the momentum would send things flying eastward. Moving rocks and ...

In our catalog of general doomsday fantasies, a scenario is missing that perhaps deserves more barroom banter: standstill. What would happen if, for just a moment, a second, the earth stopped rotating ...