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Why do we not feel the Earth turning?

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Why do we not feel the Earth turning?

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  1. Brett
    The centripetal force caused by the Earth's rotation is negligible compared
    to gravity.  Good thing, too, or we would all fly off into outer space!
    There is also the Coriolis force that results from the Earth's rotation:
    we can see it is effects, but we cannot really "feel" it.

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