considering it is moving an speeds of 3000 km/hr.
Sorry if the question is dumb.
Is it because everything on earth is moving relative to each other, and so it all cancels out.
Sorry if the question is dumb.
Is it because everything on earth is moving relative to each other, and so it all cancels out.
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The motion of a vehicle on the road tends to be rough.
You certainly feel the bumps and the potholes.
If you're in a slow-moving railroad train and you see another
slow-moving train going the other way, it's not always easy
to tell whether you're both moving. The track is smooth,
and the windows are closed, so if your speed isn't
changing, you don't feel the motion.
On earth, everything around you is moving WITH the earth,
and the centripetal acceleration is very small and just makes
gravitational force seem to be a little smaller than it otherwise would.
And of course the speed hardly changes in a million years.
You certainly feel the bumps and the potholes.
If you're in a slow-moving railroad train and you see another
slow-moving train going the other way, it's not always easy
to tell whether you're both moving. The track is smooth,
and the windows are closed, so if your speed isn't
changing, you don't feel the motion.
On earth, everything around you is moving WITH the earth,
and the centripetal acceleration is very small and just makes
gravitational force seem to be a little smaller than it otherwise would.
And of course the speed hardly changes in a million years.
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The question is NOT dumb, it is a usual question most people ask. The answer is that when the earth rotates at a speed of about 25,000 km/hour all things including trees, air, etc move the same way. You can feel the wind only if it is moving at a different speed or if you are moving at a different speed of 60 km per hour. Even though all things are moving, you do not know it because you are stationary relative to each other. This is the basis for Einstein's theory of Relativity.
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You can feel speed in a car, for example, because no car runs perfectly smooth, and no road is perfectly smooth. The earth travels so smoothly that you can't feel it. Of course you would notice if, the earth suddenly changed speed, or if there was some sort of disturbance in it's path. Plus the earth has been moving at speeds of 3000 km/hr since you were born, you are "used to it". If you were born on a roller coaster and never got off for your entire life, you wouldn't feel that either, it would be normal. Right?
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You don't feel velocity, you feel acceleration. The earth isn't accelerating. In a car you only know you're moving because you can see things around you moving and you know to associate the noises with being in a moving car.
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Car
1, probably because your moving against the Earth. 2, you're not feeling it unless you're accelerating.
Earth
I think you can't feel the earth because there is no wind in space.
1, probably because your moving against the Earth. 2, you're not feeling it unless you're accelerating.
Earth
I think you can't feel the earth because there is no wind in space.
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How do you "feel " you are traveling at 60 kmph? Do you "feel" it 10 times more in a plane at 600 kmph?? Sometimes you don't feel it at all.