Every single step you take, every car ride, every time you pace around your kitchen waiting for the microwave – they’re all little movements in different directions, right?
But if you actually added ALL of them together like vectors (direction + distance), most of them cancel each other out. Like when you walk to the store and then back home – those mostly negate each other.
What you’re left with after all that cancellation is just a straight line from where you were born to where you’ll eventually die. That’s your lifetime’s NET movement.
And here’s the mind-blowing part: if you calculate the speed of this journey, it’s INCREDIBLY slow. Like if you were born in Perth and die in Sydney after 80 years, that’s roughly 4000 miles. Divide that by your entire lifetime and you’re moving at about 0.006 kph along that vector. That’s slower than a snail!
Isn’t that wild? Despite all our rushing around, our lifetime of movement averages out to basically crawling in slow motion along a single straight line.
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You haven’t factored in the movement of the Earth.
Just re-member that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving, revolving at 900 miles an hour.
It’s orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it’s reckoned, a Sun, that is the source of all our power.
The Sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see, are moving at a million miles a day
In the outer-spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of the Galaxy we call “The Milky Way”.
Cool thought. And unless those 2 locations are very close together, then the vector is mostly underground.
This is not casual conversation, it’s pointless technical re-arranging of words and terms for…some unknown reason. Sorry