The Rev Dodgson said:

Spiny Norman said:

Divine Angel said:

How far would a human float in those 7 seconds before the Earth’s gravity kicks in again?

The hypothetical human is outside and untethered.

Not very far. The radial velocity on the surface, even on the equator, is pretty small.

I’m going to say that initially we’d just become weightless and continue in a straight line, rather than in orbit around the Sun, just like the Earth beneath us.

But things would rapidly change. All the rocks beneath us are compressed by the material above them. If that force disappeared they would expand outwards with very high accelleration.

I will leave it to mv to tell us exactly how that would work out over 7 seconds :)

Well outside my expertise.