If you wanted to reach a point where Earth's gravity no longer has a hold on you, you'd have to fly out about 21 million kilometers, or 13 million miles. That's 87 times farther away than the moon.
If the earth were about 36,000 km in diameter with the same mass and length-of-day then the gravity at the equator would be zero. This is the altitude of geostationary orbits.
The Earth's gravitational field extends well into space it does not stop. However, it does weaken as one gets further from the center of the Earth. The Shuttle orbits about 125 mi above the surface, roughly the distance between Jackson and Nashville!
Strictly speaking, the Earth's gravity will always pull on an object, no matter how distant. Gravity is a force that obeys an 'inverse square law'. So, for example, put an object twice as far away and it will feel a quarter of the force.
Contrary to popular belief, there's no such thing as zero gravity. Weightlessness and zero gravity are two different things. The earth's gravity keeps the moon in orbit. And astronauts are generally much closer to earth than the moon is, which means that the earth's pull on them has to be much stronger.
As every object will be out of balance for those 5 seconds, the earth's atmosphere will start to disappear, its core will expand with the heat of the sun, the surface of the earth will begin to crack, tidal waves will soar high and other sudden changes will start coming to life.
There would be no events recorded even the stopage itself , since time can be defined as the interval between two events. Stopage is a factor of time so without time stopping it won't be possible.
Now, the answer to your question: Yes, it will eventually stop, because gravity does not cease to exist in space, as derived by the formula for gravity, which employs two values, the Mass of the object and the Distance of the measurable object from another object.
Constant Speed
So what does this sentence really mean? Surprisingly, the answer has nothing to do with the actual speed of light, which is 300,000 kilometers per second (186,000 miles per second) through the "vacuum" of empty space.
The gravitational force acts between all objects that have mass. This force always attracts objects together, and although it is the weakest of the four fundamental forces, gravity has an infinite range.
The earth is an oblate spheroid, and that means it bulges out in the middle (the equator). That also means the poles end up a little closer to the centre of gravity. That is why on the surface of earth, at the poles the intensity of gravity is the maximum.
The lowest gravity on the planet is found at the southern tip of Sri Lanka and parts of the Indian Ocean east of the Maldives. North Canada around the Hudson Bay area is also an area of low gravity.
So what exactly is the escape velocity from the surface of the Earth? It is a whopping 11.2 km/s (kilometres per second).
Yet the edge of space – or the point where we consider spacecraft and astronauts to have entered space, known as the Von Karman Line – is only 62 miles (100 kilometers) above sea level. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device.
Where does space begin? For purposes of spaceflight some would say at the Karman line, currently defined as an altitude of 100 kilometers (60 miles). Others might place a line 80 kilometers (50 miles) above Earth's mean sea level.
Space is not empty. A point in outer space is filled with gas, dust, a wind of charged particles from the stars, light from stars, cosmic rays, radiation left over from the Big Bang, gravity, electric and magnetic fields, and neutrinos from nuclear reactions.
Outer space is not friendly to life. Extreme temperatures, low pressure and radiation can quickly degrade cell membranes and destroy DNA. Any life-forms that somehow find themselves in the void soon die.
Scientists now consider it unlikely the universe has an end – a region where the galaxies stop or where there would be a barrier of some kind marking the end of space. But nobody knows for sure.
The universe will get smaller and smaller, galaxies will collide with each other, and all the matter in the universe will be scrunched up together. When the universe will once again be squeezed into an infinitely small space, time will end.
The universe will cease to exist around the same time our sun is slated to die, according to new predictions based on the multiverse theory.
In order for you to stop time, you would have to be traveling infinitely fast. Nothing can travel faster than light (let alone infinitely fast) without gaining infinite mass and energy, according to Einstein's theory of relativity.
The video was staged, but it showcased a very real circumstance: in the days after returning to Earth, astronauts tend to forget about gravity. According to Air & Space Magazine: In 1998, astronaut Joe Edwards spent about a week in orbit as the pilot on a space shuttle mission.
It would push objects away from each other. Watching this happen from out in space, you could see everything not bolted down to Earth–buildings, desks, homework, cats–start to lift off and drift into space. Then, you could see the surface of the earth start to fall away.
But what about gravity? The sun is the anchor point of the solar system — at 333,000 times the mass of Earth, it exerts a hefty pull that keeps the planets locked in their orbits. If all that gravitational force disappeared, it would still take us eight minutes to feel it.