When you’re driving, relax and think of the car seat as a nice comfortable couch that sits (mostly) motionless, with wheels that pull the earth under and rotate it beneath your wheels until you’ve pulled your destination over to where you were sitting.
The relative motion is the same, and so are all the angles, but somehow it feels so much less frenetic.
(The “mostly” motionless is because your couch does of course rock and tip a bit as the uneven terrain gets rolled beneath it)
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The Earth rotates once in 24 hours, and its (equatorial) radius is 3,963 miles (6,378 km). The rotational speed starts at zero at either geographic pole and increases as you head toward the equator, where it reaches its maximum of about 1038 mi/hr (1669 km/hr). At 45 degrees north or south latitude, the rotational speed is about 0.7 of this maximum speed.
– Rcwinther Ask a scientist service -Newton BBS-
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as to the OP, I can do it at will if its quiet enough to concentrate/meditate.
I get a lil’ sick from this:
when I’m parked next to a car and for some reason, I feel my car moving (it’s not actually on) and see the other car move backwards (they are leaving the parking spot) thinking I’m the one moving forward instead. That really makes me dizzy. Stupid but it happens.
I try this trick in bed (no it doesnt involve a woman). What I do is to close my eyes and pretend the bed is shooting up into the sky, passing right through the roof as would a ghost, and I once I get up high enough, I stop. Then I imagine the world below me, 10,000 feet to the ground and I start believing the bed is just plumetting back to Earth. I swear I could feel a certain weightlessness as I fell. Quirky but cool.
The real trick is believing its all happening of course, which is why I focus on a lot of small details like clouds and stars to aid my brainwashing.