why does the world revolve at 3,000 mph. but we don't move at all??

Answer 1

actually, you are moving, but your just moving at the same speed as the earth and therefore in your relative perspective it doesn't seem like your moving.

Answer 2

First of all, the Earth "revolving" means going around the sun in its orbit...our planet's orbital speed is about 18 miles per second around the sun. The term you are looking for is "rotate"...as in the earth "rotates" or spins on its axis. It does NOT do this at 3000 miles per hour, but at about 1000 miles per hour at the equator. Also the nonsense many people have been asking about the earth being nearest the planet Mars this August 2006 is wrong. That happened in August of 2003...some idiot has been sending old emails. Even at its closest approach, Mars will never be more than a bright star in the sky to the naked eye....there's NO way it can be as large as the "full moon". That's horse poop put out by ignorant people. The closest that Mars can come to the Earth is about 25 million miles.

Answer 3

Imagine that you're on an airplane, the airplane moves at nearly 1000 kph. Why don't you move at all? because you've got the same speed and the same direction of the airplane. You've also got the same acceleration.

But imagine what if the airplane stopped suddenly, you would be thrown at 1000 kph, now imagine the world stop moving... Well, that was a joke. world never stopes such suddenly!
So, you've got the same movement of the earth. Now you're sitting beside your computer and you have no speed? You have the Speed of 3000mph! That's what we call v0 (V Zero) in physics.

Answer 4

Because you are moving with it at that speed. if you can setup a little experiment , you can get an ant and a ball (about 5m radius) and spin the ant on top at about 250 mph, in a vacuum. It will continue it's normal activities without noticing.

Answer 5

The Earth revolves around the Sun at 66,000 miles per hour and rotates on its axis at 1,000 miles per hour. You don't feel it because Earth's gravity holds everything to on the Earth and because Earth is moving through the vacuum of space where there is no friction.

Answer 6

When you are standing or sitting in a bus and it is moving at a constant speed, you may feel the bumps on the road, but you don't feel the motion.
Exactly the same is the case with people who are standing on the surface of the earth. You don't feel the motion, because the earth is moving at a constant speed and there are no bumps on the road either.

Answer 7

The world is our inertial frame of reference. It seems that everything moves and we don't. But gravity keeps us rooted to the Earth. I'm sure that General Relativity must have something to do with this, but, as I haven't finished my coffee and am currently in Brainfogland, which has a different inertial frame of reference (a slower one), I can't explain it...

Answer 8

To answer your question, because everything around you is also moving at 3000mph, you do not notice the motion. In order to perceive the motion, you must see it or feel it in the objects around you.
You can feel accelleration or decelleration (as you would in a moving vehicle) but when travelling at a constant speed, you do not feel anything.

Answer 9

The special theory of relativity states that there is no absolute motion.every thing move in relation with the other say if a car is moving besides you with the same speed you have you feel like the car is not moving(you're measuring his speed with relation to yours.Every thing is moving right now.Our galaxy,our solar system(including our sun)our planet....

Answer 10

Centrifugal force, gravity keeps us in place on the surface of the Earth.