Normal people: Alright, 5 seconds isn’t that bad. What If: Explains the end of the Earth

There's a book titled Blindness which I read some years ago, written by Jose Saramago. The book depicts very well several situations after an entire population went blind. I'd like you to make a video on What if everyone on Earth was blind? That would be awesome!

In those exact 5 seconds my boss would still require me to keep on working

my toxic trait is thinking id survive this cuz its only for 5 seconds

This is so interesting yet scary to think about

I like the way they ended every episode and tied another scenario with "But that's a story for another What If."

The woman getting hit in the face with the fish @5:17 was hilarious!

I didn't know this existed. I've always wished there were videos/books/etc.. for the "what if" scenarios I think up in my head. I'm so glad I came across this!!!

What If the Earth Stopped Spinning for 5 Seconds? answer: we all die

If the earth stands still for 5 seconds, the same thing happens as a bus or train suddenly brakes. All moving objects are thrown in the direction of the earth's rotation. The speed at the equator 40,000 km / 24 hours is about 1700km / hour. You have to hold on tight.

What if the earth had a firmament, and was established on pillars, was completely unmoving, and the sun, moon, and stars moved overhead in a rotation? Oh wait….

Only 1 sec is enough to wipe out everything

5:17 LOL

I was hoping you'd cover a sudden instant halt as well as a gradual one

The random voice inflection and overemphasis on random words kills this

The better and bigger question is...What if the earth STARTED spinning? That would be insane and catastrophic..just a little something for the mind...

Do what if apophis hit the earth Next This in order 0:00 Information 0:54 Asteroid Hit 2:00 How much humans died 2:15 50 Minutes After 3:23 3 Hours After 3:45 2030(1 Year after) 4:12 When the asteroid stops 5:00 Progess of a asteroid smash 7:05 End

Everyone would go hertling at 1,000 mph

Man keep the content up love the vids:)

What if? Literally what if the earth was reversed on it axis? Would this be considered time travel??

Love how you mentioned the wind... but not how you and every object around you is still moving at ~1000mph. The wind wouldn't kill you, but you slamming into the nearest object would turn you into a puddle. Now... What would happen if the earth decelerated to a stop??

The speed of our earth is 1670 km / h. So we are all moving at this speed. If the earth suddenly stopped, we would lean forward at this speed due to the inertia of motion. If an object is thrown at this speed, it will go into space.

That's what Christopher Reeves's superman did in the 1978 film while trying to reverse time by literally reversing the Earth's rotation. The Earth actually stopped rotating for few seconds. Dude literally caused an apocalypse just to save his girlfriend. And people complain about Man of Steel having a lot of destruction

Putting our time and effort in activities and investments that will yield a profitable return in the future is what we should be aiming for. Success depends on the actions or steps you take to achieve it.

Fun fact: The earth's rotation is slowing down everyday, just VERY slowing

depends on how quick it stops spinning tbh, if its an abrupt stop then sure but if it slows down into a stop over a period of time then the damage wouldn't be as bad.

Why would you even think of such an outrageous scenario in first place? Earth doesn't need a 5 second coffee break.

This would actually make a good disaster movie. Obviously they won't be super scientifically accurate (because when are they?) but I don't think I've seen this as a reason for a disaster in a movie yet. Earthquakes, volcanos, another ice age, tornadoes, something from space, it's all been done and redone.

Just popped up in my recommended list this morning. I'm familiar with the channel and I love it. On a chance click I discovered that at 2 minutes and 37 seconds is a clip from inside a house suffering destruction from the derecho that we suffered last year. That house and that storm happened here in my hometown of cedar rapids. I've seen that clip hundreds of times while watching the news here during and after that storm. Quite a surprising thing to randomly discover on a random click this morning. Another reason I just love "What If"!

Why did I think of the band one direction when he said one direction.😥😥 1:08

5:33 whether it came to a halt or not, we already had an event that caused this exact same kind of damage and more, back in the younger dryas, meaning, and it seems it has happened before...meaning we might be a few years, a few centuries, or perhaps a little below 2000 years before it happens again.

Wish you have also included mph, very few in the USA have any clue what kilometer speeds equate to

4:20 This poor guy is going to be tired of running in each and every video of "What If ".

Shoutout to the camera man who had to expirience all this just for us to see what would happen

I would love to hear the what ifs for the below scenarios: • If all gasoline operated vehicles stopped running for 1 day. • If 50% of today’s technology didn’t exist.

Him: “here’s what if the earth stopped for 5 seconds” Me: “1 2 3 4 5” Me: “Ok earth start spinning again.”

I would also imagine that the sudden stop would mean we would all go flying east at the speed the earth was rotating prior to stopping from inertia, so we would probably be affect in a simarlar to that of the wind. This also makes me wonder what it would be like in a plane high up, would the plane just keep travelling in its course because the wind and atmosphere is still moving as it was before the earth stopped? 🤔

Will that really be able to happen in 5 seconds Feels like a fever dream How long will it go on for just after 5 seconds Earth can be truly terrifying But not as terrifying as people

This is an underrated channel fr.

This is the content I need, stoned at 3am 😂

I always wondered what would our surroundings look like if we have microscopic eyesight.

After watching what if series from 2018, now i can use a new motto in my life. "I will try new things in my life for 5 minutes"

That was genuinely the most interesting video I have ever watched

Fun fact: Watching this video we've forgets that all this will happen in just 5 seconds

Hard to imagine the Earth established itself to perfectly support life and continually maintain the proper order of ordinance.

Now, what if the Earth stopped rotating for 1 nanosecond? Would it be largely the same?

I love what if. I answer all my science questions from these ;)

5:15 was the funniest thing I've seen all day. was that clip supposed to be intimidating lol

Maybe make a part 2 to this: What if the earth slowly stopped and then started rotating the opposite way (so it wouldn't be an instant stop but a slow down, stopped for five seconds, and then started rotating the opposite way).

What if the earth stop spinning for 5 seconds? Short Answer: We die Long Answer: This entire video

Ok but *what if* it stopped spinning very gradually like very slowly until it stopped completely and started spinning in opposite direction. I'm curious as to the changes earth and its inhabitants would go through then. Please do cover this topic~

It is amazing, how EVERY LITTLE THING on our planet is combined with each other, it's simply A MIRACLE.........

The "what if" never gets old

What about the momentum everything had while spinning? Wouldn't everything on its own fly away very laaaarge distances?

Employers be like why are you 5 seconds late?

My insomnia showed up today and just … I LOVE your channel !!!

I'd like to know what would happen if it started spinning.

It’s impossible for the earth to experience this much damage in just 5 seconds. Come on. I agree we might suffer

Me remembering all those tornado scenes 😂😂

Since the Earth is about 24,901 miles in circumference, and the escape velocity is just about 25, 000 Miles per hour, the rotational speed at the equator is about 1,037.5 Miles pr hour. likely not much. there would be some damage, but not nearly as if the Earth's rotational speed matched it's circumference, or vice versa the circumference matched the equatorial rotational speed, things would certainly get thrown around if it stopped rotating, for a period greater than 5 seconds.

Well this depends, if earth comes to a gradual halt and then starts to gradually pick up speed back in rotation, then this is what will happen for sure. But if it were to stop suddenly and then get back similar, it'll be just as if your skipped a beat

What if videos be like: "what if the temperature on Earth decreased by 0.000001 degrees for a milisecond" *Five minutes later* "Entire skyscrapers would collapses, tornadoes would start forming worldwide, and the Earth would start to crack into two"

One of the coolest channels i've found.

Something like this happens in a short story by HG Wells. Its called "The Man Who Could Work Miracles." The description is absolutely terrifying

The most important part is that the spinning of earth neutralizes the gravitational force of earth to some extent. If spinning stops the gravitational force will increase proportionately.

Could you make a video on what if the Earth was in another solar system?

This study just goes to show how perfectly God created the earth. He really knew what He was doing.

What if tornado never exists?

At 460 m/s, for 5 seconds, everything would hurl east for a minimum of 2000m

The woman being knocked out by the fish is sending me 😂😂

2:14 "But forget about you" HEY 😡

1:19 Why is Earth bigger than the Sun?

The Earth spins on axis once every 23 hours and 47 minutes. The 24 hour day is solar noon to solar noon, which requires more than 360 degrees of spin to account for motion along it's orbital path to bring the Sun back to directly overhead.

5:16 that fish tho 😂

So basically, y’all would fly & die, I would survive.

I absolutely love your channel! Hooked lol my family is not aloud to talk during my what if vids lol

The thing is, if everything slammed to an instant stop, you wouldn't have water or wind moving (it too would all have stopped). Although as they say, the water accumulated near the equator would recede to the poles as a tsunami, but what would smash everything would be the deceleration forces, depending on how long it took to stop. Or maybe not if the forces stopping everything also acted on each object equally meaning nothing would be felt. It all depends on what stops, what doesn't stop, and the physical manner in which it's all made to stop. Slightly more realistically: If some kind of massive magnetic field acted on the core and somehow quickly stopped it spinning, then everything else (mostly unaffected by the magnetism) would gradually start coming to a stop from the friction thousands of miles down, which would be the friction between the stopped core, and the still moving mantle and the crust. Wonder how long that would take? Hours? Days? Weeks? Either way you'd get titanic volcanism from the massively induced global continental drift that at the equator would suddenly be around a thousand miles and hour! There would be felt forces, titanic earthquakes, large tsunami's (mostly in one direction) and the buildup of winds and storms though I doubt it would be anything like the full wind speed mentioned in the video, since it would take quite a while for the mantle and crust to slow down. The frictional heating at the core mantle boundary would be unimaginably immense and would likely cause explosive volcanic cataclysms punching their way to the surface causing eruptions beyond anything we've ever seen. Of course by that time the surface would have been pretty much wiped out by the earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami's (and storms. But that primary volcanism from the frictional contact at the core mantle boundary, would take some time to erupt to the surface from so far below, and when it did the heat and blast released from the escaping magma plumes would possibly melt the mantle, and eventually the crust and surface too, perhaps converting the planet into an ocean of lava, but ... of course I'm speculating. It would take a sophisticated computer physics model to predict what would likely happen physics wise. Whatever took place though, it would certainly be spectacular!

No spinning, no gravity. Hope you can fly, but in 5 seconds you're going to come back down...

the girl slapped by the fish got me there 😂😂

Hello @What If I just love each and every video of yours. Very informative and Engaging. If possible make a video on "What If Earth starts rotating in other way (ACW)"

what would happen if the earth stopped revolving around the sun for one day, and then went back around the sun backwards?

Imagine watching this video and world just stop spinning 🤣🤣

I seem to recall an old black & movie I saw when I was a kid. The world stopped spinning and a massive wave of wind surged through the cities demolishing everything. I was maybe 5 years old and it was so surreal on an old Black & White TV in Stoughton Massachusetts.

yeah... 1600mph winds and the fastest tornado was clocked around 300mph. It's safe to say 1600 mph winds would completely destroy everything.

It’s hard to believe that a huge coincidence happened making the earth and its moon making it able to support life

Its like being in a bus going at 60 miles an hour and the driver slams the brakes

I'll remember this video for my next primary school assignment.

Wow just for 5 seconds causes a lot a damage

Respect to that guy who did a front flip just to have this video an impressive entrance. 🙃

Love reading all these views of the scientists who didn't become scientists.

A question I've never asked myself but now need to know

When you sum up all the forces acting on every single one of us that alone makes you stop and think. We are moving on Earth's rotation and orbit around the sun. The solar system is on orbit around the milky way. The milky way is also moving. Each of these movements are our equilibrium right now and yet they are immensely fast from a stationary bystander's perspective.

1:53 That's in Metro Manila Philippines

Me: 5 seconds wouldnt be to bad Me while watching: *oh*

that second video of the winds blowing on the icy mountain top, that's Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire and that's my friend Ryan Knapp blowing down the snowy flat surface after jumping onto the wind.

I would hold my phone as hard as I can so I can still play Pokémon go And if it was 5 seconds I think almost no one will die.

If the Earth stoped even for a second, the force of inertia will cause everything to "rotate." People and a lot of things will hit the nearest rock or solid surface that isn't moving. So the idea of ​​wind blowing at enormous speeds is not plausible because the atmosphere of the air will move in the same direction as everything, including us. I agree with the idea of earth returning to sfere. It means that, for example, the people at the equator would continue to move under the force of inertia not parallel to the Earth. With the Earth decreasing circumference at the equator would practically make people and things appear to be flying in the air.

If I was outside doing yard work and suddenly flew through my neighbors' fences, I would think I just got kidnapped by a supervillain.

"But, forget about u!" -WHAT IF 2021

And what if the earth would decelerate slowly to zero, so that not such sudden strong forces of a sudden stop occur?