{"id":1194,"date":"2023-11-01T15:15:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2023-11-01T15:15:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T15:15:34","slug":"perspective-on-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/2023\/11\/01\/perspective-on-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective on &#8220;Moving&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">A Quora question asks:<br \/>\n<strong>From your own perspective, frame of reference, if you are not accelerating, are you not moving at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">Perhaps the reason people find this difficult to grasp is because of the ambiguous and unnecessary words \u201cat all\u201d at the end &#8211; which lend support to the idea that the word \u201cmoving\u201d without mention of a context has any meaning at all. It does not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">And it never has. The claim that something is \u201cmoving\u201d has\u00a0never\u00a0had any meaning without identification of\u00a0relative to what, and it is perhaps unfortunate that by convention we often take the word without modification as meaning relative to the Earth without explaining that convention to small children (who then grow up thinking that there must be some kind of absolute property of \u201cmoving\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">From my own perspective, while sitting still in a bus I am not moving relative to the bus, but I know damn well that I am moving relative to the world outside. And it\u2019s not just from my own perspective. Everyone else agrees with both of those relative motion statements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"q-text qu-display--block qu-wordBreak--break-word qu-textAlign--start\">So although it is just a tautology that from every perspective I am never moving relative to myself, it is false (or rather meaningless) that there exists any perspective from which I am ever not moving at all.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/From-your-own-perspective-frame-of-reference-if-you-are-not-accelerating-are-you-not-moving-at-all\/answer\/Alan-Cooper-5\">(1000) Alan Cooper&#8217;s answer to From your own perspective, frame of reference, if you are not accelerating, are you not moving at all? &#8211; Quora<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Quora question asks: From your own perspective, frame of reference, if you are not accelerating, are you not moving at all? Perhaps the reason people find this difficult to grasp is because of the ambiguous and unnecessary words \u201cat all\u201d at the end &#8211; which lend support to the idea that the word \u201cmoving\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/2023\/11\/01\/perspective-on-moving\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perspective on &#8220;Moving&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}