This idea came to me like when I was sitting like Newton. When an apple fell on him he founded gravity. I may just have discovered the fastest means of travel through space.
We all know that the earth and all planets are rotating very fast.What happens if it were to suddenly stop?? We would just be thrown into space at that blistering speed.
Could we ever use this phenomenon to LAUNCH a SPACESHIP into space, it could very well solve our problem and enable us to reach distant galaxies.
The earth has a radius of around 6378 km. That means the circumference is about 40,000km which we are travelling in 24 hrs. This means a speed of 1670km/hr. I was not so good with maths from day one. Hence I leave the calculations of angular motion to you guys.
What I want to say is that the earth could easily be one of the most slowly rotating planets in entire space and even then any body at rest is travelling at 1670km/hr.
It means if suddenly when the earth were to stop, the objects on its surface will be thrown at this speed because of the Centrifugal Force.Of course gravity could play a part in slowing down.
Consider if we could find a heavenly body(planet,satallite or asteroid) that is rotating at a very high speed and whose size is small which reduces gravity,Our Problem reduces to finding a way to stop the panet from rotating.
I would restate the procedure in steps.
1.Select Body: I would prefer a satallite or asteroid which has high rotation speed. This is because when size increase, gravity increase and we have to decrese gravity as much as possible. I would say Satallites of Jupitur or Saturn would be up for it.
2.Place Spaceship: We must place it along its equator to gain maximum speed.
3.Stop Rotation: If I knew how to do it, I wouldnt be blogging around. But I have a prospect for that too.
Rotation is a purely mechanical force which originated because of Big Bang and hence we cannot do much about it. But there is a large deposit of magnetic material in the earth's core which act as bar magnet. If we apply a large magnetic force repelling the earh's magnetization, we could stop it.