If I was suspended (floating) above the ground would the Earth rotate beneath me?

Steve asked this question last year and missed hearing the answer. No – the earth wouldn’t rotate beneath you, you would still move along with the Earth. Inertia would carry you along with the atmosphere and the rotating earth so no relative motion would be seen. The earth’s atmosphere is part of this movement and moves along with the Earth.

To explain Inertia is relatively simple. Inertia is the principle that an object will tend to keep moving at a constant speed and in one constant direction unless something else acts to change it.