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What would happen if the Earth stopped rotating?????
Hello.
If Earth stopped rotating, all life on it would eventually perish because of the unequal heating effects - with the Sun heating one half of Earth - while the other half ceased receiving sunlight.
Too, photo-synthesis would be affected, causing massive drop-off in food reserves, and mass famine.
Monstrous storms would also occur- because of the unequal heating effects- as well as much large than normal tides- and possible mammoth earthquakes.
If the Earth stopped rotating, no one would want to live on it.
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Philip Stahl
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I have forty years of experience in Astronomy, specifically solar and space physics. My specialties include the physics of solar flares, sunspots, including their effects on Earth and statistics as applied to astronomical investigations.
Experience
Astronomy: more than forty years experience starting with construction of my own simple telescopes. Worked at university observatory in college, doing astrographic measurements. M.Phil. degree in Physics/Solar Physics and more than ten years as researcher.
Organizations
American Astronomical Society (Solar Physics and Dynamical Astronomy divisions), American Mathematical Society, American Geophysical Union
Publications
Solar Physics (journal), The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, The Proceedings of the Meudon Solar Flare Workshop (1986), The Proceedings of the Caribbean Physics Conference (1985). Books: 'Selected Analyses in Solar Flare Plasma Dynamics', 'Physics Notes for Advanced Level'.
Education/Credentials
B.A. Astronomy, M. Phil. Physics
Awards and Honors
American Astronomical Society Studentship Award (1984), Barbados Government Award for Solar Research
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