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Frightening simulation shows what would happen if the world stopped spinning

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Published 16:45 4 Jul 2025 GMT+1

Frightening simulation shows what would happen if the world stopped spinning

It's not pretty...

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Featured Image Credit: Zack D Films

Topics: Science, YouTube, Space

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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A frightening simulation shows what would happen if the world was to stop spinning.

As we all know (and if you don’t, give your head a wobble), our planet is constantly rotating around, and around, and around on its own axis.

Of course, with the Earth spinning, we therefore have the sunrise and sunset - so rather than the Sun being the thing that’s moving, it’s our spinning that makes its position in the sky change.

Going at 1,000 miles per hour, it takes 24 hours to complete a full rotation. Yes, what a coincidence, a full day.

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And this spinning is obviously essential, even if we don’t actually notice it. But as he always does, the trusty Zack D Films on YouTube has created a simulation to explain how you really would notice if the world did somehow stop spinning.

The Earth is constantly spinning. (NASA)
The Earth is constantly spinning. (NASA)

Unsurprisingly, it’s not particularly pretty and would cause scenes straight out of a disaster film.

Placing an animated hand to stop the movement of the globe, the simulation explains: “If the Earth suddenly stopped spinning, you’d instantly be thrown east at over a thousand miles an hour.”

It says the 'force of the movement' would keep everything moving at the same speed.

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Pretty scarily, the simulation shows cars, trees, peoples, rocks and just, well, all sorts flying through the air super fast. Like I said, disaster movie.

“Anything not attached would go flying,” it says. “Even oceans would shift with devastating force.”

And yeah, it then shows what is essentially just a giant tsunami spreading across the globe.

“And since the atmosphere would keep going too, powerful winds would blast across the planet.”

The simulation explains that ‘without the spin’, the planet’s magnetic field could ‘collapse’.

Then here comes the biggie: “The planet would quickly fry, causing total extinction.”

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BBC Sky at Night Magazine explains that if the planet's spin gradually stopped, the effects would also occur gradually, resulting in longer days and nights.

Our circadian rhythm would also be disturbed and weather patterns would start to change.

Eventually, one side of the Earth would be subjected to continuous daylight and heat from the Sun, while the other would be in constant darkness, getting super cold.

Many forms of life on the planet would therefore suffer a mass extinction.

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