Eli5 I know you’ve physically jumped inside of a bus, van or train and retained the same exact position post jump… Is this the same concept as clouds and the earth, do clouds rotate with the earth or just get blown by the wind.

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Eli5 I know you’ve physically jumped inside of a bus, van or train and retained the same exact position post jump… Is this the same concept as clouds and the earth, do clouds rotate with the earth or just get blown by the wind.

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

You are moving, the bus is moving, just standing in the bus doesn’t see you move around. The Earth is spinning, but so is the air in the atmosphere. When you jump on the ground, the Earth doesn’t spin out from under you because you are spinning at the same rate as the Earth before you jump. It’s all the same mechanism.