The Earth and the Milky Way are constantly rotating, but why? Read More: How Fast Does the Earth Rotate? http://www.universetoday.com/26623/how-fast-does-the-earth-rotate/ “The ground feels...
========== You're spinning and I'm spinning and the Earth
is spinning and the sun is spinning and thesolar system and the WHOLE DAMN GALAXY. BUT
WHY!You might remember from our "How Fast Is the
Universe Moving" video that you're movingreally fast right now. For example, the Earth
is rotating around it's axis at 1,040 milesper hour (465 m/s). Planets rotate. That's
what they do, right? But then science comesalong and asks WHYYY… and once you start
thinking about it, it's staggering.To figure it out, we have to go back to the
beginning. Four and a half billion years ago,our solar system began to form from clouds
of helium and hydrogen -- kind of like a nebula.As the gas was moved and undulated through
the universe...