If gravity stopped working, how long until everyone dies?

Yes. Just no gravity.

Strong nuclear, weak nuclear, that all still works. Air molecules will still bounce off each other. Rocks will still bounce off other rocks. They will still be affected by solar wind, radiation, etc.

What some posters, particularly the nasty midnight crowd, don't realize is the Earth will start moving at a tangent relative to the sun. At first, it will be moving away from the sun at only a small fraction of its orbital speed of 3.14 AU per year. That might buy time for some clever people to do things like build a spaceship with a ton of supplies.

And with gravity eliminated, you can now build huge spaceships, because you don't have to launch them into orbit. They have to hold only 1 atm of air pressure inside, which some existing vehicles could be converted to do. And you could shield them with thick layers of lead to survive a long space voyage. Stock them up with as much food and oxygen as possible, and you now survive a few months, like a space station mission.

Most parts of Earth, including the atmosphere, will hang around where Earth was for a long time, as a kind of nebula and debris field. So your ship can sail around collecting supplies out of that for some time, while you figure out what to do next.

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Scratch what I said previously, THIS ⬆️ is the stupidest thing I have ever seen.

do you have a life outside of crapposting? Pathetic.

Yes, you can build huge spaceships when they don't have to be lifted into orbit with huge amounts of energy. Many have proposed building interstellar craft in outer space for that reason.

Everything would die except anything at Mar-a-Lago. Trump has the best gravity.

Who can? So, in your world where gravity "stopped working" there would be people and supplies to build spacecrafts that take years to complete?

Everything on Earth is in motion, including you. You would be the ball at the end of the hammer throw if the thrower was standing at the center of the Earth. If Gravity stopped, you would not just keep circling the Earth. You would not still be on Earth. No one would be on Earth. As I stated before, you and everything else would be ejected. This isn't theoretical, it's easily proven. What happens to the Earth after may be debatable, but the part where everything flies away isn't. Both Newton’s law and Einstein’s general theory of relativity explain this quite easily. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of what gravity is (mass causing the curvature of spacetime) and how it works. No one is building anything. Your statement is utterly idiotic on a level rarely seen.

Guys, this question is silly.

We'd all just orbit around OP's mom instead.

Everyone will die, the last two being Jakob who sets zero gravity WRs for 1500-5000 pain free, within an hour, and Chuck Norris who ratifies them.

For me it's a toss up betweem Learning to fly by Pink Floyd and Contact by Daft Punk

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It would not be pretty according to Google AI:

If gravity suddenly stopped working, the survival time for
humanity would be measured in seconds to minutes, depending on the
exact physical interpretation of the event.

Here is a breakdown of the immediate, lethal consequences:

Atmospheric
Loss (Seconds): Gravity is what holds our air to the planet.

Without it, the atmosphere would expand explosively into the vacuum of
space. This sudden loss of air pressure would cause immediate physiological trauma, such as the rupturing of inner ears and lungs, and oxygen would be stripped from your blood.

Planetary
Disintegration (Seconds to Minutes): The Earth is under immense internal pressure. Without gravity to hold it together, the planet would likely disintegrate or "explode" as that
pressure is released. The ground beneath you would essentially fragment as tectonic plates crack and magma bursts to the surface.

Centrifugal
"Yeet" (Instant): The Earth rotates at roughly 1,000 mph (at the equator). Gravity provides the centripetal force that keeps us on the surface. Without it, inertia would cause everything not bolted down—and even buildings themselves—to fly off in a straight tangent line
at hundreds of miles per hour.

Solar System Chaos: If gravity stopped everywhere, the Sun would instantly experience
a massive thermonuclear explosion because the gravitational pressure containing its fusion would be gone.

The Bottom Line: You wouldn't just float away peacefully. You would likely die from explosive decompression or physical trauma within the first few seconds.

Cool!

Chuck Norris isn't affected by gravity.

He is gravity.

The sun and Earth possibly blowing up would be a bad problem. I don't think the atmosphere would depressurize that fast, it would take a while. Anyhow I won't take an AI's word for it.

Why? It's completely wrong about the centrifugal part. Your initial 1000mph is in the same direction as the Earth's surface where you are at. That takes a while to change. From your perspective you'll start floating upward, but slowly at first, not at 1000mph. You'll be like speeding cars veering away from each other as one slowly turns. Earth turns slow.

How slow? After 1 minute, which represents 1/1440th of an Earth day and thus .25 degrees of Earth rotation, your velocity vector away from Earth will be approximately (because the arc length is short) 1000 x tan (.25) = 4.4mph. 4mph is walking pace.

So, if you realize within a few seconds that gravity is gone, here's what you do: grab onto something fixed to the ground. If you can't find anything, yell at someone to throw you a rope and climb back down. Next jump from tree to nearby tree to move around. You'll land somewhere above ground in each tree, climb back down.

Once you are back on the ground, you are going the same direction as Earth's surface again and will start your next upward fall from 0 again.

this is precise and can be understood without diagrams (except maybe by an AI)

let d be the distance traveled by an object on a line tangent to Earth's radial line at its point of origin, and intersecting the radial above Earth after Earth has rotated .25 degrees.

x be the radius of Earth

y be the distance above Earth's surface of the object when it intersects the radial at .25 degrees.

then

sin .25 = d/(x+y), and
tan .25 = d/x

d = sin.25(x+y) = tan.25(x)
y = x (tan.25 - sin.25)/sin.25

= 9.52x10^-6x

Earth's radius is 6.37x10^6 meters, so

y = 60.6m

For an average separation speed during that 1st minute of 60.6m/60s = 1.01m/s

which is about 2.27mph. Within the first few seconds it would surely be even slower

if you were in New York or somewhere with skyscrapers, you could last longer than a minute, even.

Dunning-Kruger on steroids.

It's a shame you aren't smart enough to know how stupid you are.

100% clueless.

atmospheric pressure is due to the weight of the atmosphere, not its mass. without gravity the atmosphere has no weight (weight = mg). therefore we instantly go from 14.7psi to zero.

our lungs explode and any exposed water, eyes, mouth, throat etc will boil instantly.

we need o2 at a certain partial pressure, which could not be provided at 0 bar. so cant breath.

nuclear submarines might seem the safest, but the oceans boil / evaporate and the subs are flung into space. no water to cool the reactor means it has to chut down. they might last a couple of days. 99.9% of people die within 5 minutes or much less.

Why? You think this guy is plotting to turn gravity off?