Will The Earth Stop Rotating? Date: 1999 - 2000 Will the earth
stop rotating? Yes, but not for a long long long time. (If I
remember correctly, it is currently slowing down by about half a
second per century.) As the earth rotates it gets stretched and
squeezed by tidal forces. The energy required to do this work
comes from the earth's rotation. The simple answer to this is
No. It is believed that the Earth's day will be twice as long as
it is now, in about 5 thousand million years time, but there is
too much momentum in the Earth to stop it from rotating. By the
way, at the moment the Earth is rotating its fastest since the
late 1920s, having lost approximately 0.63 milliseconds per day
in the last 12 months (to June 28, 2001) against atomic time,
based on preliminary International Earth Rotation Service data;
compared with 3.13 milliseconds per day in 1972, and 3.89
milliseconds per day in 1912. The Earth GAINED on atomic time in
1929 by 0.35 ms/day. Because of tidal friction.... yes it will.
In fact, it is