One musing

So, I sometimes think about how strange time and space are. The earth hurtles through space, spinning away with us held down by a powerful force. Where we are in that space at a particular time is critical. We're all familiar with the expression, "It was a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time", and it's true. You cross a street, when just a second before, a speeding car was in the street. If you were in the street earlier, your particles and the car's would try to occupy the same space at the same time, with the expected unpleasant results. But if you track your position in space--not relative to the moving surface of the earth, you'd find you are nowhere near where the car was a moment earlier when you step out into the street. The earth is moving about 67,000 miles an hour in its orbit around the sun, while also spinning on its axis. Fortunately, everything on the earth is also moving along with it at that speed, so relative to each other, we can appear motionless. Would it feel different to really be motionless--to be out in space, not moving relative to anything (assuming the universe itself is not moving... though if it were, what would it be moving relative to?). I try to be still sometimes, relax, be quiet, but I can't escape moving 67,000 miles an hour, no matter how I try. No wonder people are so uptight.