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In a word: inertia. That which is in motion, tends to stay in motion. Gravity acts to pull you towards then center of the earth, but has no effect on your lateral movement. Try this: stand on your tippy-toes just as the train is starting from a stop? Why do you fall? Again, inertia - there has to be a force acting upon you to change your velocity. Once your moving at 90 mph, you will stay moving at 90 mph until some force acts upon you to slow you down. Jumping up in the air doesn’t change the fact that you were moving laterally at 90mph before, during, and after your jump. A “normal” force pushes up from the ground to keep you from falling down, and when the train stops, you will again feel that force.

When you stand perfectly still on flat ground, how fast are you moving? “You’re not moving.” you say? The diameter of the earth is roughly 7925 mi. The circumference of the earth is then pi times that, or about 24,897 mi. A point on the equator covers this distance in 24 hours, so:

(pi * 7925) / 24.0 = 1037.3800741541297

But you don’t live on the equator, so how fast does the average person in Scotland move when they are standing perfectly still?

But the earth doesn’t just hang there in space. It’s moving around the sun. You’re moving a lot faster at night relative to the sun than you are during the day, and at the same speed as the earth at dawn or dusk. But what are those numbers.

On response to a different post, you are cute. Don’t try to cure that. Cute beats out hot hands down. “Cute” has to do with a package deal and compliments the whole package, not just how you look. Plenty of people are “hot”, yet ugly.

Hope you’ll see this new reply to your old post and think a bit.

An admirer from America