What I mean is has anyone ever combined the speeds that we are moving at when we are sitting still?
First, there is the rotation of Earth on its axis.
Second, there is the Earth's orbit around the sun.
Then there is the solar system's speed through the Milky Way.
And finally, there is the galaxy moving relative to the rest of the universe (assuming that the Big Bang theory is correct).
I know that this is a strictly academic problem, but I would appreciate some conjecture.
2006-12-18 01:38:49 · 6 answers · asked by carldooley 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Speed is relative - and when my relatives sit around the house, they sit AROUND the house 'cause they don't move much ner very fast when they do.
2006-12-18 01:54:08 · answer #1 · answered by rumplesnitz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth's circumfrence is about 28000 miles roughly. The earth makes one spin around its axis in 24 hours and so we ae rotating along with the earth's spin at a speed of 1166.6666miles per hour .(say 1167/-miles per hour .) this we do not feel as the earth's atmospher also rotates withthe earth at the same speed due to gravity. Its orbit around the sun is 149600000/- KMs. this it travels in 365days . So it must be moving around the sun at the rate of 409863.01 Kms per day. It should be 17077.625 Kilo meters per hour .This should be moving along with the galaxy , the speed of which the scientists swould have calculated as they have done with the drifitng of the galactic matter in connection with the theory of Big bang.This is not just an acadeic problem but a fact to which we are subjected to every moment but we still do not realize .This is a proof of the quality of nature and ou inability to see the reality.We do not see what is real and we see all that is unreal . We are living in an illusion and we do not realize it .
2006-12-18 03:09:08 · answer #2 · answered by diamond r 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earth rotates on its axis at about 1,000 MPH at the equator. Of course the speed is zero at the pole. Earth orbits the Sun at about 66,000 MPH and the sun orbits the galaxy at about a million MPH. The galaxy is moving, about 3 million MPH with respect to other nearby galaxies. Beyond that I don't know. I am not sure you can use the "rest of the universe" as the "stillness" against which to measure motion.
2006-12-18 01:47:08 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question is wrong or incomplete. You should have defined your point of reference. According to the theory of relativity (which you obviously assume correct, since you also assume the Big Bang theory being correct) you can only define motion of one body relative to some other.
Your reference to Big Bang and "the rest of the universe" is also wrong. "The rest" is not a single object moving with one speed in one direction. Every galaxy, star, planet, and atom is moving in a different direction with a different speed relative to us.
2006-12-18 01:58:51 · answer #4 · answered by nomolino 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you are wrong, as there is not a "rest of universe" that is still so that we can use it as a reference. And, even if such "rest of universe" should be consistently defined, the question would then be "what interest would we have in taking it as a reference?"
You move at the speed of light, related to the light that your skin reflects... but, trust me, that shouldn't make you feel dizzy.
Think that we don't move faster than at light speed, anyway
2006-12-18 02:42:43 · answer #5 · answered by R. G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have I got a song for you.
THE UNIVERSE SONG, from Monty Python's THE MEANING OF LIFE
2006-12-18 02:36:51 · answer #6 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋