Indeed you do that in order to judge your speed. But you don't analyze things as if you were on that tree. You are in the car...Steve3007 wrote:Sorry, Skakos. I don't know what you mean. When you say "something else" do you mean something other than our own body? If not, what do you mean by that term?
What is so weird about using something else as a reference point? If I'm driving my car and I look out of the window and see "something else" moving past the window, like a tree or a house, I use that "something else" as a reference point for judging my velocity. Why is that weird?
Earth at the center of the Universe?
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That analyzing things as if we were on the Sun is not normal. We are on Earth. Right?Steve3007 wrote:Yep. That's true. And your point is...?
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