Even assuming the Earth did move by some significant distance when everybody jumped, just think about it: it’d move right back again! You jump up, the Earth goes down: you fall down, the Earth comes up to meet you. Jumping up and down to try to move the Earth is like mounting a fan on a sailboat, pointing the fan at the sail, and expecting the boat to move forwards. It just doesn’t work! http://qntm.org/moving
If you put all the people in the world in one place there would not be enough weight to cause any real effect.
Whoa… you just blew my mind. Hmm.. maybe you should organise it
, thats the only way you can find out to be honest.
Of course not you dumbass!!
Even assuming the Earth did move by some significant distance when everybody jumped, just think about it: it’d move right back again! You jump up, the Earth goes down: you fall down, the Earth comes up to meet you. Jumping up and down to try to move the Earth is like mounting a fan on a sailboat, pointing the fan at the sail, and expecting the boat to move forwards. It just doesn’t work!
http://qntm.org/moving