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No it would not.
You show how it could.

There is original motion and it is acceleration through space. It
starts its motion through space.
Not changing speed and not moving through space is relative or
apparent motion
to whatever has changed speed and is moving through space-time.




Do you agree that if there is such a thing as absolute space, at any
given moment the earth could have nonzero velocity in absolute space?
Say at this moment, the earth is moving at 100 km/sec to the right,
relative to an observer at rest in absolute space. Even if you'd say
this observer is not "really" moving, wouldn't he *appear* to be moving
from the point of view of an observer on earth?

Jesse