Timeline for How can you accelerate without moving?
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| May 23 at 18:15 | answer | added | Adam | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 2 at 8:55 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Nov 28, 2018 at 3:36 | comment | added | tparker | When you stand on the Earth, you're moving relative to some things and not moving relative to other things. There's no reason to arbitrarily choose the center of the Earth to be the final arbiter of whether "you're moving" or not. | |
| Feb 4, 2018 at 5:50 | history | edited | Chris♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 3, 2016 at 11:11 | answer | added | John Rennie | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 2:02 | comment | added | user32023 | Yeah, I'm pretty sure I was specific about the 'relative to what question.' A nearby star for the space flight, the center of the earth for the second experiment. | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 1:01 | comment | added | Diracology | You totally forgot the first and most important question: Am I moving and/or accelerating relative to what? | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:54 | answer | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:24 | history | edited | user32023 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:20 | comment | added | CuriousOne | But you are accelerating. The floor accelerates you all the time. Without it, you wouldn't be accelerating. :-) | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:19 | comment | added | user32023 | I asked "how can I be accelerating without moving?" When I tried your suggestion, I stopped accelerating. | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:18 | comment | added | CuriousOne | You were asking why you weren't moving. The answer to that is "floor". :-) | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:17 | comment | added | user32023 | I just tried that. My accelerometer went to zero, so we're not dealing with the same situation. | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:15 | comment | added | CuriousOne | You didn't move because you were standing on the floor and the floor was preventing you from moving. Take the floor away and you would be moving just fine. | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 0:13 | history | asked | user32023 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |