The Earth's Indifference to Our Jumps

Imagine eight billion people jumping at once. Sounds like chaos, right?

Picture this: every human on the planet crouches down simultaneously. Cities, villages,

deserts, islands. Everyone leaps into the air at the exact same moment.

The ground trembles beneath our feet. Energy ripples through the Earth's crust. But here's the shocking

truth: our planet barely flinches. All eight billion of us combined weigh about six hundred

million tons. That sounds massive until you compare it to Earth's six trillion trillion

kilograms. Newton's third law tells us every action has an equal opposite reaction.

When we jump up, we push Earth down. But the force disperses instantly through solid rock and molten