If the Earth is moving at 67,000 mph, why can't we feel it?

Question

Why can't we feel it or see it?

Answer 1

Because we are moving at the same rate, along with it.

Answer 2

IThe reason we cannot "feel" it is because of the relative velocity.

If you are in the lift and others in the lift ascend or descend with you, there would seem to be no apparent change in each other's positions, although everyone is moving a some speed. If this speed is kept constant and there were no starting and stopping, then it would be even harder to tell that it is moving.

The same effect happens when you are in a plane with hundreds of other passengers. While the plane is traveling some 800 km/h, everyone is enjoy their meals. If you remove the turbulence and atmospheric resistance, and the plane keeps a constant speed, no one would know that they are al moving at high speed.

Lastly, besides Earth moving at high speed, our solar system is also moving at high speed and our galaxy, the Milky way is also moving at high speed. So in fact, we are all moving much faster than we know, it's just that with a moving reference point, we will not be able to tell it. However, if we take a fixed reference point in the center of space, then we would know better.

Answer 3

because were moving with it. now if it just stopped all of a sudden. you would definaltly feel it. on second thought. all of civilization would end as we know it because there would be houses, cars, people, natural objects, ect flying across the surface of the earth at 67,000 mph, obliterating everything we have ever known. thast assuming the core of the earth doesnt go super critical and destroy us. It would be like crashing into a brick wall at 67,000. in your new sports car. that happens to go 67,000 mph.

Answer 4

Einstein explained it. The Earth is only moving at 67,000 miles per hour relative to the sun(?). Einstein said that it doesn't matter what your speed is if you're traveling at a constant velocity. Any experiment you can perform on a space lab moving at 8 miles per second relative the the Earth would yield the same results as that same experiment performed on a space lab moving 1000 miles per second relative to the earth. There is no constant velocity motion without something to compare that motion to. If you were floating in deep space at a constant velocity, without a reference point, it wouldn't mater how fast you were moving, you wouldn't be able to tell. You need a reference point.

Answer 5

You can see it by the movement of the stars and sun. You can't feel it because it is constant. If you were to drive 40 mph for 12 straight hours then speed up to 70 mph for 20 minutes and then go back to 40 mph, 40 would seem dreadfully slow.

Answer 6

Have you ever been on an airplane going about 500 mph? Could you feel it? It's called inertia. A constant rate of speed is indistinguishable from being stationary. There is no experiment you can do in a closed environment that is moving that will prove to you that it is not standing still.

Same way that there is no experiment that can distinguish acceleration from gravity ;-)

Answer 7

You can catch a penny travelling at a speed of 55 mph and barely feel it. The next time you're in your car on the freeway, toss a penny a coupla inches in the air and catch it in your palm. That penny's travelling forward at a speed of 55 (or whatever speed you're going at the time).

Answer 8

If you don't have a radar detector, you will feel it when you have to go to court for speeding 57,000 mph over the limiit.

Answer 9

First is because of momentum, however we do feel the centrifugal force, which know as gravity!

Answer 10

same reason you don't feel the speed in a car or a plane