How fast are we moving?

Question

We are moving on the earth as it spins on its axis. The earth is orbiting the Sun. Our sun and our solar system are orbiting in the outer edge of the milkyway galaxy. Our galaxy along with everything else in the universe is expanding. How fast are we moving? Also, since time is relative to matter in motion, If a human stopped all motion would time stop?

Answer 1

Words and Music by Eric Idle and John Du Prez

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Answer 2

The Earth is moving somewhere from 23 million miles per hour around the sun, but we don't notice it because we are moving so fast, and our galaxy is moving even faster through the universe and if if a human could stop all motion, including the motion of the Earth, everything would be thrown into the direction that the Earth is currently moving probably, and it would probably not top for a while, and time would not be stopped most likely

Answer 3

All motion is relative. You can only measure velocity relative to something else. Relative to the Earth, while standing still you're not moving. The Earth moves around 30km per second around the sun. The sun is probably moving faster than that around the center of the galaxy. There is no fixed point in space that you can measure motion from. Everything in the universe is moving relative to something else. There's no way to "stop" relative to the universe.

Answer 4

The earth is spinning at roughly 1,600 km per hour.Our Sun take s 200,000,000 years to go around the center of our galaxy. The big bang created both time and space. both distance and velocity are functions of time. In the very distant future when the average temperature of the universe reaches 0 degrees Kelvin all motion will stop...everything will be literally frozen in space. But space is here and so is time and it will go on clicking away the femptoseconds.

Answer 5

i became going to point the present remake of break of day of the lifeless yet you've already seen it. Zombies that run are so suspenseful (no longer declaring i don't love the classic and unique slow zombie video clips, i imagine they are nonetheless large) Watch The Stuff, Zombi 3, and Umberto Lenzi's Nightmare city ( a.ok.a. city of the walking lifeless) i love this question because i respect video clips with quick zombies in them too.

Answer 6

What a bunch of cowards! Answer the question. I seem to remember hearing somewhere that we flew through space at about 3,000,000mph.

Answer 7

Pick a frame of reference; Einstein showed that any frame would do, and you can choose one in which the motion is any value you please.

Answer 8

Pretty damn fast.