If the world is spinning why are you not spinning?

Answer 1

Very important fact, that comes up in hundreds of situations . . . . . We never feel motion.

We only feel changes in motion.

Example: You can read or sleep very well in a car going 70 miles an hour, as long as the

car doesn't speed up, slow down, turn, or hit a rough spot. And have you ever been on

an airliner, cruising along at 400 miles an hour and reading a book or taking a nap ?

It makes no difference whether you're moving fast or slow, horizontally or vertically.

You feel nothing until either the speed or the direction changes.

On the spinning earth, you're moving almost 1,040 miles an hour at the equator, or

730 miles an hour at the latitude of Chicago. You don't feel the speed in the direction

east along the ground, because it never changes. You do feel the force it takes to

keep you moving in a circle at that speed ... the force you call your "weight".

Answer 2

As you move along with the Earth's rotation, you maintain the same speed and direction relative to the Earth's surface, so you don't feel like you're spinning. It's similar to riding in a moving car - you move with the car's motion and don't feel like you're moving at all.