Thứ Năm, 28 tháng 7, 2011

Why do not feel the Earth move?

Every second, the earth beyond the 30 km journey around the sun. That's not to mention it rotates with the speed at the equator is 465 meters / sec.

Yet it seems the earth is standing still, while just sitting in the car, you'll quickly work on vehicles.





Back with a common situation: When boating on the river, you'll surf very fast boats, trees and everything on both sides of every pass spiraling. But when large ships at sea, first as a color sky blue sea, far albatross looks like a white blob floating in the air, then you will feel the ship going too slow, although the rate of its superior speed boat on a river. The main problem is in place.
When sailing, the trees either side without moving the boat is moving. If the trees go as fast coastal work, demonstrating the greater speed of the boat. But nothing on the ocean as a landmark to us that train was going fast. So you see it glide slowly, even when standing still.
Earth as a giant space ship. If the side of its orbit has its landmark objects such as trees by the river, we will easily see that the earth is moving. But near the Earth, unfortunately, did not have anything as a standard. Only pull the stars far away to help us see the Earth changes position according to the date only. The stars are so far away, so in a short few minutes, a few seconds, we can hardly feel the earth shifting.
As the Earth spins on it to speed quickly, we and everything on it is also spinning at the same speed, so we do not feel this motion. But you do not forget that every day we see the sun, moon and stars grow back and dive back east-west, which is the result of the earth spins on its own.

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