Why do I feel like I'm standing still while I'm orbiting around on Earth?

Question

waaaa, I don't understand. Since I feel like I'm standing still doesn't that mean the whole Earth orbit thing is a HOAX?

Answer 1

One doesn't sense motion, per se, so much as acceleration.

You are moving at a consistent speed, on a surface moving at the same consistent speed, surrounded by air moving at a similar consistent speed. As far as planetary rotation goes, you are, in fact going around, but your mass is at rest, relative to your immediate environment.

Try jumping out of an airplane, someday. You'll notice that once you reach terminal velocity, you feel no motion, at all. Just a huge wind.

Answer 2

You are not orbiting around the earth. YOu are held to the surface of the earth as it moves, hence the feeling of standing still. Much the same way you feel still in a car as it moves down the street.

Answer 3

Are you serious? Do you really think that since you don't feel like you're moving in an airplane, this means the airplane isn't moving?

You feel acceleration. You can feel the car moving up in speed or slowing down. However, it takes a few billion years for the earth to noticeably slow so you may not notice the change, and you may not be alive by then.

Answer 4

Well you are not retating the sun by your self in fact the whole erath is moving around the sun and also if the earth dint move we had no winter and no summer but the reason you do not fell the rotation is because the force of gravity is pulling you down sitting still on the earth surface.

Answer 5

You are so used to it turning, you dont even notice it. Some people say one of the reasons babys cry alot affter birth is because they can feel the earth moving while we cant. I dont belive that, but I do know that its true that the earth orbits. If it did not, how could we have day or night?

Answer 6

You feel like you are standing still because you are unless you are walking or driving. The Earth is rotating even at its enormous speed relatively to scale it is so slow you can not feel it. It is called inertia.
If the rotation ever changes or stop you will feel it. Let us hope that that wont happen in our life time.

Answer 7

By saying you are standing still that is relative to the earth.

Answer 8

besides as whats been suggested above its exciting to recollect that mercury has no important environment, this ability that the 'sky' might have an earie blackness to it, unlike our very own blue sky!