/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11191601
>>can only be entertained by grand CGI spectacles found in pop-sci shows
>Find a shorter video on his channel if you can't handle it. He's BTFO the globe plenty of times.
>>11191651
>Erm brainlet, are you saying that not only does gravity pull mass down towards a center, but can also apply a force to make mass move in a spinning motion?
>>11191744
>Erm brainlet, is the atmosphere orbiting the earth?
>>11191796
>Erm brainlet, so why did you mention tidal locking?
>If the earth suddenly stopped spinning, would the atmosphere also?
>>11191955
>>Gravity slows rotation. It doesn’t speed it up.
>Erm brainlet, what does that have to do with the atmosphere?
>>The atmosphere is part of earth in the same sense the oceans, the rocks, and the trees are, so yes.
>So why do scientists say things on the surface of the earth like the oceans would continue to move and cause serious destruction if the earth suddenly stopped spinning?
>>11192002
>>I don’t know. You’re the one who brought it up with “ are you saying that not only does gravity pull mass down towards a center, but can also apply a force to make mass move in a spinning motion?“
>Erm brainlet, let's imagine our (supposed) spinning earth had no atmosphere, but suddenly some gas appeared near the earth and moved towards it due to the gravitational attraction. At what point would the gas start spinning with the earth?
>>No idea who said that, but they’re wrong.
>Are you calling vsauce a liar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0-GxoJ_Pcg
>>11192013
>No. You're gay.
>>11192101
>>Not until the atmosphere is sufficiently dense to be in constant contact with the planet. Without intermediate particles to transfer the energy, there’s no way for the planet to confer it’s angular momentum to the gas.
>Erm brainlet, you're saying that contact with the surface of the earth would be required for the gas to spin with the earth, therefore there must be some force other than gravity that causes the gas to spin,