Does the magnetic field of the sun interact with the magnetic field of earth to cause earth to rotate in its direction and constane speed?

Answer 1

Tidal Forces? I think what you mean to say is centrifical force. Slowing down the rotation would allow gravity to effect us more drawing us in. Centrifical force ensures we stay at the farthest point allowed by gravity.

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Here's a more elaborate answer from New Scientist:

Russian dynamicists Gregoriy A. Krasinsky and Victor A. Brumberg calculated in 2004, that the sun and Earth are gradually moving apart. It's not much - just 15 cm per year - but since that's 100 times greater than the measurement error, something must really be pushing Earth outward. But what? One idea is that the Sun is losing enough mass, via fusion and the solar wind, to gradually be losing its gravitational grip (see Astronomical unit may need to be redefined). Other possible explanations include a change in the gravitational constant G, the effects of cosmic expansion, and even the influence of dark matter. None have proved satisfactory. But Takaho Miura of Hirosaki University in Japan and three colleagues think they have the answer. In an article submitted to the European journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, they argue that the sun and Earth are literally pushing each other away due to their tidal interaction. It's the same process that's gradually driving the moon's orbit outward: Tides raised by the moon in our oceans are gradually transferring Earth's rotational energy to lunar motion. As a consequence, each year the moon's orbit expands by about 4 cm and Earth's rotation slows by 0.000017 second. Likewise, Miura's team assumes that our planet's mass is raising a tiny but sustained tidal bulge in the sun. They calculate that, thanks to Earth, the sun's rotation rate is slowing by 3 milliseconds per century (0.00003 second per year). According to their explanation, the distance between the Earth and sun is growing because the sun is losing its angular momentum.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17228-why-is-the-earth-moving-away-from-the-sun.html

Ofcourse it is.. for two reasons:-\

1) The Sun is losing mass

2) The Tidal Interaction Slows The Sun's rotation.

Answer 2

In fact the Earth is moving away from the Sun - due to the Suns mass loss - at a mere 15cm per year.

That means that in a hundred years, we will be almost 15 metres further away - hardly worth worrying about.

Answer 3

It does both. It rotates or simply turns every twenty-four hours. That is why the sun seems to go across the sky. It is also why it is daytime on one side of the earth and night on the other side.

Answer 4

The Earth is a great natural magnet . It has north and south magnetic poles, a magnetic axis and a magnetic field. Its magnetic field extend far out into space.

Above the Earth, 4000 miles or 6400 kilometers, the intensity of Earth's magnetic field is still as great as one-eight of the gravity at the Earth's surface. The magnetic field of the Earth is not yet fully-understood. It is thought that it arises from electric current that are circulating in the Earths molten outer core.

We cannot see the magnetic field as it is invisible. We can imagine it as line patterns that loop from one pool to the other pole of the planet. These field lines are parallel to the surface near the earth equator. They bend and converge as the field lines approach the two magnetic poles.

These magnetic fields helps shield the planet Earth from the harm of radiation. They deflect or capture the charged particles streaming from the Sun.

This event forms the two vast zones of radiation. It is called the Van Allen radiation belts. These radiations surrounds the Earth. Solar wind, the storm of particles flowing from the sun, distorts the shape of the magnetic field into a long "tail" just like what we see on a comet.

Our planets magnetic field are very much useful for some living organisms. Fishes, Sea turtles, migrating Birds and others use these magnetic fields for their navigation purposes. We humans cannot sense these fields naturally but we can make use of it by detecting these magnetic fields using a compass.

Answer 5

Yes. The Sun even pulls on the Moon harder than Earth pulls on Moon.

Yes. The Sun even pulls on the Moon harder than Earth pulls on Moon.

Yes. The Sun even pulls on the Moon harder than Earth pulls on Moon.

Yes. The Sun even pulls on the Moon harder than Earth pulls on Moon.

Answer 6

The earth is moving around the sun in a so-called elliptical orbit. The orbit is almost circular, but not completely. The distance from earth to the sun varies from 91.5 million miles on January 3 (called the "perihelion") to a distance of 94.5 million miles on July 4 (called the "aphelion").

In general terms, the earth is neither moving away from or closer to the sun, but more or less stays the same distance from the sun. This distance is called the earth's orbit around the sun.

However, because the orbit is not completely round (it is elliptical) there is times of the year when the earth is moving gradually away from the sun (towards "aphelion") and other times when it moves gradually closer to the sun (towards "perihelion"). The difference between the two "extremes" aphelion and perihelion is not dramatic (the earth is said to have an almost circular orbit).

Answer 7

Just as gravitational effects caused the Moon to become tidally locked (same side always facing Earth), so tidal effects will move the Moon slowly farther from the Earth.

The fact that the Moon orbits more slowly than the Earth spins means that the Earth is being slowed and the Moon is gaining angular momentum, which causes it to orbit farther from the Earth. But the process is extremely slow, a nearly insignificant difference of about 38 mm per year (just 38 kilometers in a million years, compared to the orbital distance of 400,000 km).

Answer 8

No, the Sun pulls on the Earth by gravity, not magnetism.

The Sun and the Earth do have magnetic fields, but they repel each other just as much as they attract, so there is no real pull.

Answer 9

Yes. Gravity always acts in a matched pair of forces.

The gravitational force that pulls you to the earth is what you weigh on earth.

The force also pulls the earth to you. That force is what the earth weighs on you,

and the forces are equal.

Answer 10

Yes.

Related Information:

As the result of Earth's spin and it's effect on the tide, the moon gains energy (speed) by stealing Earth's spin energy and uses it to gradually expand its orbit, moving away from the earth.

As the earth spins, the gravity of the moon pulls water, air, and land up towards itself causing a bulge called the tide. Earth's spin then pulls this tidal bulge ahead of the moon. So the tide moves slightly faster than the moon and just east of it. Then the increased gravity effect from the bulge racing ahead of the moon, gradually, almost imperceptibly, pulls the moon forward in its own orbit even faster. This also slows Earth's spin but at a much less perceptible rate.

The end result is a kind of Earth-sponsored sling shot effect. The moon has distanced itself (receded) from Earth in this way, by hundreds of thousands of kilometers, in its long association with Earth.

It is calculated that the current orbit of the moon increases in diameter by about 3.8 cm (about 1 1/2 inches) every year as a result of this effect. Over millions and billions of years this has added up.

The moon is currently moving away from the earth about 3 to 4 times faster than in the past. The spacing of the major oceans and continents allows for a more powerful effect than earlier. But it will not continue this way indefinitely. As the continents continue to drift, affecting the tides, the rate that the moon recedes will also change.

Were the earth to stop spinning, this sling shot effect would stop and the moon's orbit would gradually decay. So, the moon might come crashing down upon the earth someday. Although, that day would certainly be billions of years away.

In fact, current calculations are that the moon would finally stop moving away from earth approximately 15 billion years from now, with collision expected in more than 30 billion years. However, the sun is expected to develop into a red giant and incinerate both the earth and the moon long before then: 6 or 7 billion years from now.