How far would I travel if I stayed in Bed all day?

Question

The Earth rotates on it's axis, it orbits around the sun, as a solar system we orbit galactic central point, and the galaxy is part of an ever expanding universe. So if I stayed in bed all day, how far would I have actually travelled?

Answer 1

Unless you'd have fallen out of bed, you wouldnt have moved at all relative to the place you started out.

relative to the point in space you would need to do a lot of maths and i
a) cant be bothered and
b) wouldnt know where to start.

good question though.

Answer 2

Central London hotels are a nightmare pricewise - just keep looking around. Unless you really need to stay in the centre, try going further out like Croydon (travelling time into London only about 25 minutes), Travelling to Scotland would be cheapest by National express coach but horribly longwinded - look at British Rail instead.

Answer 3

You sounds like the driver in a vehicle. And the vehicle is your bed. And all around you is people being carried by you in the vehicle, throughout the solar system and the galaxy.

So you will travel the same distance from your bed on the earth, in the solar system, in the galaxy, in the universe, whatever the maths. And the maths is greater than your maths in which you aggregate. Let's see!!

Answer 4

Reality is all in your mind. Whether you stay in bed or not, you're never travelling anywhere. It's like playing Grand Theft Auto for example, you can spend hours travelling all over the vast expanse of the city, but move away from the screen and you realise that you haven't gone anywhere at all. The difference is that in this reality, we've all made it extremely difficult for ourselves to move away from our screen. I do apologise if I made you think too much for a monday afternoon.

Answer 5

The answer depends on where you look at it. If you just look through your bed, you did not travel anywhere. Look at it through a stationary point in space around earth, you would travel the distance equal to the length of the latitude you are in. Looking through the sun, you traveled 1/365.25 your way around the sun (2,500,00 km). So on and so forth...

Everything is relative.

Answer 6

Earth is rotating 360 degrees in 24 hours at the equator and ZERO at the poles
360x 60 =21600 minutes of arc= 21600nautical miles divided by 24= 900nautical miles. 33NM=38miles therefore Earth is spinning at 900Knots or 1037MPH. at equator and 518MPH at latitude 60 , but it is in relation to a spot in outer space..

Answer 7

Well, if you lived on the equator 24,859.82 miles (the circumference of the planet), just world spins. Don't ask me how far you would go through space as Earth orbits the sun.

Answer 8

Depends if the bed is on a plane or train.

To judge distance, you need a start and finish point. Since everything is moving (Stars and planets) there are no fixed points from which to work it from.

Answer 9

i can tell you that's easy, you would travel to the land of nodd as the planet continues to spin, the longer you stay in bed in theory the further you will travel, but i wouldn't envy your bed sores a bit, so its best you get up and actually move about save your self from this plight.

Answer 10

are you talking about your displacement or the distance you've travelled? Your displacement would be zero as you've gone back to where you started. but your distance would be the diameter of the earth times by pi. I dont have a calcualtor to hand so work that bit out yourself.