Why doesn’t it spin independently of me and I end up in another country or something? And if a spaceship watched earth from afar, at one point would it start spinning with earth and at what point can it observe the rotations of earth without being part of it?
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The real answer is the helicopter isn’t stationary. It’s moving with the momentum transfered to it by the Earth’s rotation from when it was sitting idle on the ground before take off. It’s the same reason you don’t fly into a building at 16,000 KPH when you jump strait up
They changed the laws of gravity a while back because everyone who jumped on the train kept falling off the back. I’m sure it was in the news, it’s much better these days.
Very similar to driving a car, and tossing a ball up in the air. Does it hit you in the face?
It doesn’t because everything in the car is moving together as a system. You’re all moving at the same relative speed.
Everything on earth is doing the same.
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