What If Earth Stopped Spinning for Just 1 Second?

Right now you're moving at hundreds of miles an hour, and you don't feel a thing. So what would happen if Earth stopped spinning for just one second? The answer is stranger than you think: the ground stops, but the air, the oceans and you keep going. And then it starts spinning again. CHAPTERS 0:00 One second 0:30 How fast are you moving? 1:09 Why you don't feel it 1:46 The experiment 2:28 The ground stops 3:00 The fastest stop a human ever survived 3:37 Cars and skyscrapers 4:15 A planet-wide sonic boom 5:01 The oceans 5:27 Who would survive? 6:12 The second jolt 6:55 What if it never started again? 7:42 Earth is slowing down 8:25 You don't feel a thing TAGS what if earth stopped spinning, earth stopped spinning, what if, earth rotation, science explained, animated science, inertia, physics, space, planet earth