How does the speed of the rotation of the earth dosen’t affect us on a daily basis?
In: Planetary Science
You can think of it in different ways,for example you can eventually come to the conclusion that the rotation speed of earth only causes one constant and unavoidable effect on us, which is basically somewhat counteracting the gravitational pull. (Of course it also causes the day-night cycles but you can avoid that effect by living in a cellar leaving us with one unavoidable effect.)
Now it actually does not matter how big or small this antigravity effect is, the only thing that matters is that it’s always the same since billions of years. It means that our total pull towards the earth is somewhat less than it would be on a non rotating planet, but since we evolved into this earth, never set food on another earth, your body has adapted to whatever is here. It includes the background radiation, the pull, the air composition and all.
And so we do not sense stationary things, like we don’t have a minute to minute consciousness of air or gravity etc, as long as things don’t change. It would be very exhausting to continuously be aware of all constant things, and so we evolved to only account for changes. The constant forces on your body (like the gravity or the rotational forces of earth) have never changed in your life, so you are not aware of them, and anyways, you wouldn’t be able to tell them apart, so even if you did sense it, the best you could do is telling the total force.
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