Does the earth rotate on its axis due to gravitaional pull from the sun and other planets?

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The easy answer is....The earth and it’s planets were formed by the gravitational collapse of a huge cloud of gas and dust. As the dust and gas collapsed it started swirling. Within this mass of swirling gases and dust, eddies formed, with their own swirling masses, each spinning on it’s own axis.

The planets just continued to spin after forming because there are no forces to stop it’s spin. No scientific jingoism required to get this simple picture.

So the answer is, "No. " The earth rotates because of the spin already imparted to it. Recent research has that a comet/asteroid wanged the earth a glancing blow that both knocked enough debris off to become the moon but also sped up the rotation.

Now the earth's REVOLVING around the sun is exactly a factor of the sun's gravity.

No, no......there's a big key at the North Pole that hast to be wound every "spring. " There's one at the South Pole, too, but that would make us spin in the opposite direction, so only the Australians want to use that one.

The key concept here is "conservation of angular momentum": once something is spinning, it keeps spinning. When the solar system formed, it had a certain amount of angular momentum. It was a big spinning cloud of gas.

Over time, the gas coalesced into various bodies, but the angular momentum had to be conserved. Most of it went into the sun, which also spins. Some of it went into the planets themselves, both in the way they revolve around the sun, and in the way they rotate around their axes.

That's the key here: the planets all rotate the same way; all of their moons revolve around them the same way; they all revolve around the sun the same way. All of that circular motion is in the same direction as the initial cloud of gas. The same phenomenon gives rise to both rotation and.

You just think of it as one mass, rotating around the center of gravity. In the case of a planet, there's a center of gravity at the core, and it rotates around that. It doesn't require any outside influence to do that: it just maintains the initial angular momentum.

Similarly, the sun and the earth rotate around their common center of mass, which happens to be inside the sun, essentially at the center but just slightly in the direction of earth. The only difference between rotation and revolution is that in rotation, the mass is distributed evenly around the center, while in revolution, it's distributed unequally.Now... there are a few caveats here. The TOTAL angular momentum has to be conserved, but there can be small bits that don't line up.

The earth's axis is somewhat tilted, probably due to an interaction with some piece with a very different angular momentum early in its history. Uranus is actually VERY tilted, almost flipped over, and exactly how that happened is a major puzzle. But at a first approximation, the rule still holds: everything is rotating and revolving the same way.

The exceptions are very small and localized compared to the solar system as a whole.

More likely when the earth and other planets formed from debris, the collection process caused by the gravity of the original collection of pieces, arrived, with velocity and at an angle and added their motion to the ever growing collection. One definition of a planet is the ability to clean it's immediate area of space-born debris. I imagine that rotation is SOP throughout the Universe and it appears to be with the galaxies.

The energy for this so-called cleaning process is, of course, gravity.

I should say something that you probably already know ...gravity is one of the four basic forces of our known Universe.

The EASIEST answer is...God did it. A bad writer wrote a fictional book after the earth had formed the scientific way, that book created an immortal omniscient and all-powerful entity which reversed time and recreated the universe. That entity is called god, and when god looked at one of its own creation, called earth, it thought it was boring just staying still, so it spun earth.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.