If Earth were to stop spinning but continue to orbit the sun, a "day" would last half a year, and so would the night.

If the Earth suddenly slammed to a stop, you would keep moving at that speed until something stopped you. For most people, that would mean slamming into the nearest wall to their East.

“Supposing that the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of closely packed, but uncompressed blueberries, what would happen from the perspective of a person on the ...