When you walk, do you move on the Earth or does the Earth move under you?

Question

Prove your answer.

Answer 1

According to the theory of relativity it depends upon your frame of reference. You can chose to view either yourself or the earth as moving. However the maths is a hell of lot easier if you view yourself as moving.

Answer 2

The answer is both are in motion. The earth revolves at 24,000 miles per hour and seeing as how no one can run that fast it's not even remotely possible to maintain your position in space/time....and that's not even taking into consideration that at the same time the Earth revolves it is also hurtling through space in orbit around a star which revolves with a galaxy, which is moving outward from the event point of the big bang. Even if all of that were not so, every atom vibrates at a specific rate above the temperature of absolute zero which can only be produced with a great degree of difficulty in laboratory settings.

Answer 3

Both.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So your motion forward pushes the earth backward. Only you weigh say 100 kilograms, and the earth weighs 6X10^24, so it doesn't move much.

Answer 4

We move with the earth's rotation, with the earth's elliptical orbit around the sun, with the sun's rotations around the Milky Way and with the Milky Way Galaxy's velocity away from the Horrendous Kablooie.... We're in constant motion, even when we thing we're at rest sleeping at nite....go figure.

Answer 5

you move on the earth...the earth cannot move when evryone does..imagine...7 something billion people are moving everyday...!it would be chaos!(that is if the earth is not being controlled by the gravitational forces of the solar system...)

Answer 6

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