A scientific question by Mommy:

April 28, 2009 emmybunny

What if?

What if gravity stopped working?

What if?

My Mom asked a scientific, but also imaginative question. If gravity stopped working, that would be ultra bad news for almost everything on earth. Gravity, somehow, is caused by the rotation of the earth at just the right speed and tilt, and the sun, which pulls it into orbit. If gravity quit working, it might mean the earth got knocked off course, or the sun suddenly kicked the bucket, or any wild event that changes the delicate balance which keeps us alive. I think we would suddently get sucked off the planet like a giant vacuum got hungry and started munching on earth. Outer space would be full of suffocated bodies, animals, plants, floating, floating around like moon rocks. Or, if I want to create a more comical approach, if gravity quit, humans would be able to achieve all their fantasies of wishing they could fly, or jump really high, or run up walls. It would be quite entertaining, and we would weigh nothing compared to what we do now. Or, as a really weird evolutionary thought: Maybe if gravity quit just enough so everything on earth was able to fly easily, creation would continue in the air. Perhaps the next big step in evolution would be the first creatures who could live on the ground. Interesting.