What Will Happen If The Earth Stops Spinning for 5 Seconds

3Huge Tidal Waves

One of the best sci-fi movies in the last few years is without a doubt; Interstellar. The whole crew was amazing, but Matthew McConaughey stole the show. It’s emotional, amazing effects and surprisingly realistic

When someone like Neil deGrasse Tyson is satisfied with the science part of the movie, you know you’re doing the right thing.

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“When you approach a black hole, the black hole is distorting space in its vicinity, and this was captured beautifully. I enjoyed watching the surrounding imagery get distorted. … It’s a sophisticated ray-tracing problem, and if you’re a movie producer and you can get it right, then why not?… At the time of ‘2001,’ the mathematical formulation of black holes was not fully explored, so all they could do was play with space and time dimension without being anchored to actual gravitational physics.” Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter.

But we’re not going to focus on the black hole scene here. We’re going to focus on Miller's planet and the huge wave that looked like a mountain. 

If the Earth would stop spinning, the momentum will force water to move at a huge speed that will result in gigantic waves. The effect will be equal to a tsunami, but the good thing is that we won’t be alive to witness any of that.

4Moon Will Fall On Earth

This will take a longer time, but it will definitely happen. The Moon will slow down at first, and it will eventually fall on Earth. This can be devastating for potential survivors because we all know what happened to dinosaurs after the meteor incident.

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