what if the earth rotated backwards?

hungry4life

my seven year old daughter just asked me this and I am stumped couldn't find anything on the net either.
Can anyone out there help me answer this for her? thanks
PopeOfEruke

It is spinning backwards if you look the other way.
Pope
Elsewhere

The objects in the sky would simply move in the opposite direction (Sun will rise in the west and set in the east) and tornados and hurricanes would rotate clockwise...
Speaking of clockwise... clocks rotate "clockwise" because if you watch a sundial the shadow moves around in a certain direction and clocks were made to copy that motion... so I guess tornados and hurricanes would still be rotating "counter clockwise"
Let me know when she gets around to asking about gravity.
WildHorses

We would grow hounger instead of older.
XQsThaiPoes

Venus rotates backwards.
El Kabong

If it did, would the water in the toilet spin counterclockwise?
Except in Austrailia of course, then would it spin clockwise?
XQsThaiPoes

Uranus rotateswith its axis pointing to the sun. So one side is dark and the other side the sun travels in circles. That far away the sun looks probally like a big star.
PopeOfEruke

XQ
please leave my anus out of this discussion....
Pope
Elsewhere

Uranus rotateswith its axis pointing to the sun

please leave my anus out of this discussion....
Great! Thanks for the mental image I didn't need!
Leolaia

Tell her the sun would rise in the west.