if movement is relative to your position.......?

Question

then when you step on the gas in your car or pedal your bike, or even take a step to move yourself forward, are you propelling yourself forward or are you propelling the earth and everything on it in the opposite direction of your destination??

Answer 1

You could look at it as being either. However, the fact that you experience an acceleration prohibits you being considered to be a stationary point according to general relativity. This is how the twin paradox is resolved.

Answer 2

While for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction, in this case you are propelling yourself forward AND imparting the same impact on the earth, but because the earth is so big, the opposite reaction has little overall impact.

Answer 3

Hey, he's starting to catch on!
It's a little bit weirder then that, Your changing your perspective of the projection of reality.
You see at the fundamental, elemental level (quantum field), the essence of matter, or the physical reality is influenced by the observer, meaning that energy- wave like points encoded with information create form (atomic structure). Nothing is real, nothing touches anything, the world is a construct of energy patterns with specific electro-magnetic signatures that are interpreted as physical point in space that when connected create a energy-information matrix that appears to be the universe.

Answer 4

Either reference frame works for calculating velocity but your car would have to have on heck of a lot of horsepower to accelerate the earth. You're accelerating yourself.