The âcity of loveâ dwarfs Barcelona in size, being incredibly large from one end to the other, particularly so for a European city. The amount of beautiful monuments to see in Paris is overwhelming â from the Louvre to Versailles, my artistic side was more than satisfied.
But how fast does the Earth rotate? You might be surprised to know that a spot on the surface of the Earth is moving at 1675 km/h or 465 meters/second. Thatâs 1,040 miles/hour. Just think, for every second, youâre moving almost half a kilometer through space, and you donât even feel it.
Because the earth is rotating it will continue to do so unless a force is applied to either speed it up, or slow it down. So the answer to the first question is no force. But the earth is not alone in space. Gravitational attraction from other bodies, particularly the moon, is slowing the rate of rotation.