How Fast Are You Moving When You Are Sitting Still?

[rp]

https://astrosociety.org/edu/publicatio ... wfast.html

This blew my mind. Others might like their minds blown.

[xtian]

Cue Monty Python!

https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk

[rp]

I had long forgot about that one. Facts do go better w/ music.

[guitarmike2107]

Speed is relative, the chair is moving at the same speed you are, so you are at rest and the chair is expending energy resisting all the forces and doing all the Work, thats why when you get up after you have sat in a the chair your potential energy is high again, because the chair has done the Work, not because you have rested....