Why can't you feel the earth's rotation?

Answer 1

You can't feel the earth rotating because everything rotates with it. Compare it to sitting in a moving car and you are not looking out the window. As long as there are no bumps, you will never know the car is moving.

Answer 2

Because you are already moving with it. It's called a moving framce of reference; the way you know where you are is by comparing it to the earth's surface, which is rotating already. So you have no way to compare it, and thus you don't notice it in any way.

Answer 3

Since everyone on Earth is travelling with the Earth's rotation, we are all in the same inertial reference frame as the Earth. In other words, we are all travelling at the same speed as the rotation of the Earth and, as such, we feel no relative velocity difference.

Answer 4

You can't feel movement as such - only acceleration, that is, changes in movement. In fact, movement can only be defined in terms of some other object - "absolute movement" or "real speed" doesn't make sense, physically. In this case, you might say that you are moving with about 1600 kilometers per hour (with respect to Earth's center) or not at all (with respect to the Earth's surface). Or that we move with 30 kilometers per second - more than 100,000 kilometers per hour - with Earth, in its orbit around the Sun. None of this points of view is more "real" than the others.

Answer 5

It's partly because of gravity. The earth is also huge and rotates very slowly. :)