Some ask a strange, but very curious question: would the speed of rotation of the Earth change if all the people inhabiting it simultaneously jumped?
Several researchers have studied this issue.
In one of the experiments carried out for the laboratory BBC Earth Lab, journalist Greg Foote asked 50,000 people to jump together to measure the impact of this event on the lithosphere.
It turned out that at the point of the experiment, the earth’s crust shook with a magnitude of 0.6. However, to move an entire planet, earthquakes must reach at least magnitude 8. Such a jump requires 7 million times more earthlings than are currently living on all parts of the earth. It turns out that humanity is not capable of changing the orbit of Mother Earth with one jump.
