Has anyone ever tried to test the theory that if everyone jumped at once the world would change it's orbit?
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lady fuschia
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I strongly doubt it. It would be impossible to coordinate such an action. Not every one has an accurate time piece with wich to sycronize the jump and there are quite a few people who still don't have access to mordern communication to be brought into the project. The logistics of coordinating every single person in the world and getting them to all jump at exactly the same moment would be almost impossible.
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I don't think the logistics are impossible, when we have satellites all over the globe. It would be easy to make everyone in the world to understand "one, two three, JUMP!". The difficulty would be in setting up the infrastructure for this and organising travel arrangements for everyone. I say that because if everyone jumped then much of the momentum would be cancelled out by people on the opposite side of the globe. I'm sure that alone would make the undertaking impossible. The theory that momentum would cancel itself out on the return to earth is fallacious, though. If you get on a swing that is completely at rest then you find you can make it swing without having to touch the ground. In the same way everyone firstly leaving the ground, and then hitting it again, would induce a wobble into the rotation of the earth that may well prove catastrophic. I'd be up for giving it a try, if you name the day and place. Do you think that together we could make the Earth move?
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If you have to ask, the answer is obviously "No" because you don't know about it's being tested and you are part of "everybody".
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Nope. no one has. Tell you what, at 5:44 on Tuesday the 10th, everyone who reads this, stop right where you are and jump.
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No! That is like the Theory that if you gave a Million Monkeys Typewriters they would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare.....the Internet and AB proved that wrong!
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No, I don't think it has ever been tried. But, all the little human beens jumping at once would not affect the earth's orbit in the slightest. We make up an infinitismal part of the mass of the earth. Anyway, we would all still be in the earth's gravitational pull, so we would still be part of the weight/mass of the earth...even three feet off the ground.
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