Michael Stevens of Vsauce looks at what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning. He also explores how we construct time as a function of the Earth's rotation and why atomic clocks are so precise. [9:44]

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atomic clocks, axis, spin, ted ed: what if the earth stopped spinning?, rotation, earth's axis, rotation, and tilt

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• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)