well acording to some theories if the erth stopped rotating all the wather from the seas would acumulate on the north and south pole do to the r distance from the equator to the center of the erth and the r distance from the poles to the center of the erth is difrent
- They're hypotheses, not theories. Basic wording usages, and it helps to use the proper ones when discussing things in a scientific forum to avoid confusion.
- They'd be invalidated by basic physics. They're wrong. They leave out the other important bit, which is:
As I mentioned, the same centrifugal effect that causes a slight difference in the sea level distance from the centre is what creates that difference between the equatorial radius and the polar radius (i.e. the distance from the centre to the crust's surface at that point).
If Earth stopped spinning, the 20 kilometre difference would disappear. Earth would lose its oblate shape and become a near-perfect sphere (the minor alterations due to gravity would continue, but are nowhere near as large as the centrifugal effect).
The distance from the centre to any point on the surface of the ocean would become the same at the equator, at the poles, and anywhere in between. The water would not all gather at the poles; it would rearrange to be equally spread.
{I also did a little basic figuring using numbers from Wikipedia. The difference between the average depths at the poles and at the equator is around 13 metres, which means any equalisation would be around 10 metres more on the poles and around 5 metres less on the equator -- and little if any change at the 30° to 35° latitude mark -- because of the different areas, they don't add up to one 13 metre difference.}
Not much change at all, on the scale of things.
For anyone living in polar or subpolar regions, there are far worse things to worry about if the Earth stopped spinning than a mere several-metre-high flood. Like the sudden loss of air pressure and any feeling of gravity as inertia flings everything off the planet.
{abe: you missed the slash in the end box for your coding for the quotebox. That's why it doesn't appear in one, JIC you couldn't find the problem.}
Edited by Nij, : Note regarding coding.