The earth was a cube?
Answer as best you can, but you don't have to be right. It is a hypothetical scenario, for kicks and giggles. If you really have no idea how the earth works to make a guess, creative comical answers suffice.
(Hint: Think oceans, atmosphere, gravity, magnetic field, tectonic plates, mantle, core..etc)
Answer as best you can, but you don't have to be right. It is a hypothetical scenario, for kicks and giggles. If you really have no idea how the earth works to make a guess, creative comical answers suffice.
(Hint: Think oceans, atmosphere, gravity, magnetic field, tectonic plates, mantle, core..etc)
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Assuming gravity is not cube-shaped as well, the corners of the cube would be sticking far into space, with the oceans and atmosphere clinging to each of the six sides. They would be completely separated from each other, so life would evolve separately on each side, as if they were different planets. They would probably be very different environments as well. Each side would have different amounts of ocean and atmosphere. Rotation rate and axil tilt would also be factors. Assuming they're like earth, two of the sides would be polar environments. Land beyond the center of each tropical side would go increasingly uphill, so the oceans would collect at the very center, and the atmosphere most dense there as well. There would be no Coriolis effect driving wind currents, since that requires a spherical shape.
As far as inner structure, there would certainly have to be some kind of strong frame to keep it from collapsing into a sphere again. Maybe a thin inner crust of something strong, like graphine. Within this, however, the structure would be similar to earth. A mantle, and a spherical outer core of liquid iron, with the same dynamo effect that produces earth's magnetic field.
As far as inner structure, there would certainly have to be some kind of strong frame to keep it from collapsing into a sphere again. Maybe a thin inner crust of something strong, like graphine. Within this, however, the structure would be similar to earth. A mantle, and a spherical outer core of liquid iron, with the same dynamo effect that produces earth's magnetic field.
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It wouldn't be a planet. Planets are round because of gravity, and that's a really strange consideration.
Flat parts (below) means the middle of the sides of the cube. Water, and air would gather in the flat parts, and away from the corners (the corners would be about 1.5 times farther from the center of the Earth than the flat parts.
Gravity will vary greatly, and there would be forces to pull things from the corners to the flat parts.
I cannot guess about the magnetic field, and those other things, but there would be forces that try to move the mass from the high point (corners) to the flat areas in the middle of the sides. This would cause tectonic effects, etc.
The only way to have a cubical earth, the core and mantle would have to be solid.
Flat parts (below) means the middle of the sides of the cube. Water, and air would gather in the flat parts, and away from the corners (the corners would be about 1.5 times farther from the center of the Earth than the flat parts.
Gravity will vary greatly, and there would be forces to pull things from the corners to the flat parts.
I cannot guess about the magnetic field, and those other things, but there would be forces that try to move the mass from the high point (corners) to the flat areas in the middle of the sides. This would cause tectonic effects, etc.
The only way to have a cubical earth, the core and mantle would have to be solid.
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It is impossible for the Earth to be a cube. If our planet had any points or edges, gravity would pull them back towards Earth’s center and round things out again. But if Earth was a cube everything (plates, water, humans, etc.) would fall off the edges of the Earth and into outer space.
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We probably wouldnt have a magnetic field protecting us from solar rays