What Would Happen If Everyone Jumped At The Same Time

This means that by the time anyone took a calculation after landing on their feet they wouldn t be able to detect any difference from the way things were before.

They enlisted astrophysicist paul sutter at the ohio state university and physicist mark boslough at sandia national laboratories to help them think through the scenario. In fact if we all jumped together we would move the earth only a tiny bit as in less than the width of a hydrogen atom as we took off. In fact the bbc did an experiment where it got a load of people to jump at the same time and the effect on the richter scales was measured. The best answer to what would happen if everyone jumped at the same time is that it would either be utterly anticlimactic or completely cataclysmic.

To cause the sort of impact that the japan earthquake did it would require 7 million times the earth s current population. To start the experiment. That is a lot of people. Either way it s probably not a great idea.