[Mr. K]

Did you ever see a top spinning around and suddenly it gives a big twitch then stabilizes again for a short time...

i think that ‘twitch’ would be quite a shcok if it happened to the spinning earth.

It would also explain a lot of things- like why we find landmarks 100 feet underwater that used to be cities, and sea life fossils on mountain tops

[aruanan]

Did you ever see a top spinning around and suddenly it gives a big twitch then stabilizes again for a short time...

That happens because the top is spinning on a surface and is slowing down due to friction. The twitch is because of a surface irregularity encountered by the spinning axis of the top. There are no surface irregularities in space.