What would happen if you simply stood perfectly still? If the gravity
of the Sun just didn't effect you any body that was effected by the
gravity of the sun would go whizzing by at the speed the sun was
traveling throughout the galaxy. Essentially if the right amount of
gravity from the correct body didn't effect you, you would be dragged
along an arc and you could let other planets come to you. Why go any
where if you could let the destination come to you?

My question is what would the equation be if you wanted to know how
much gravity you wanted to "slip" by you, if you knew the Newtons of
the body's gravity and the distance from that body?

On 12 Nov 2003 22:11:45 -0800, (dingogrid)
wrote or quoted :

What would happen if you simply stood perfectly still?

Einstein said that you have to say still relative to WHAT? the sun,
Sirius?

When you stand perfectly still on earth, you rotate on the surface of
the earth, revolve around the sun, and revolve around the galaxy, and
presumably on a galactic level there is some motions too relative to
other bodies.

--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

Interesting though it is to play these mind games, you need to define your
parameters before you try to use them. Just like when writing computer code,
you need to have a known starting value.

So, standing still implies that you also know that a point exists that is
not moving, and you also have a reference from some as yet unknown constant
that equates to 'absolute stillness'.

Presumably, this has to also be kept at below absolute zero temp to stop
random motion...

I often ponder the idea of sitting on a particle that is entangled with one
here, but it is the very first particle at the edge of the expanding
universe. I look out and still see things all around me, and ponder how this
can be....

Over to you, the chaps in white coats need me to teach them how to juggle
soot again....

Brian

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On 12 Nov 2003 22:11:45 -0800, (dingogrid)
wrote or quoted :

What would happen if you simply stood perfectly still?

Einstein said that you have to say still relative to WHAT? the sun,
Sirius?

When you stand perfectly still on earth, you rotate on the surface of
the earth, revolve around the sun, and revolve around the galaxy, and
presumably on a galactic level there is some motions too relative to
other bodies.

There is no concept in relativity for standing still.




--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.




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(dingogrid) wrote in message . com...
What would happen if you simply stood perfectly still? If the gravity
of the Sun just didn't effect you any body that was effected by the
gravity of the sun would go whizzing by at the speed the sun was
traveling throughout the galaxy. Essentially if the right amount of
gravity from the correct body didn't effect you, you would be dragged
along an arc and you could let other planets come to you. Why go any
where if you could let the destination come to you?

My question is what would the equation be if you wanted to know how
much gravity you wanted to "slip" by you, if you knew the Newtons of
the body's gravity and the distance from that body?

That makes no sense. Study more, then formulate a sensible question.

Paul Cardinale

dingogrid wrote:

What would happen if you simply stood perfectly still?

You'd become stuck in time - and the Langoliers would get you.


--
Barry

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to
entertain a thought without accepting it.
-- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Dear Barry:

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dingogrid wrote:

What would happen if you simply stood perfectly still?

You'd become stuck in time - and the Langoliers would get you.

I was pretty sure that is what Bose-Einstein condensates did... stand
perfectly still.
The individual atoms of the condensate become non-localizeable, resolving
into something akin to waves.

David A. Smith

Roedy Green wrote:
On 12 Nov 2003 22:11:45 -0800, (dingogrid)
wrote or quoted :


What would happen if you simply stood perfectly still?


Einstein said that you have to say still relative to WHAT? the sun,
Sirius?

When you stand perfectly still on earth, you rotate on the surface of
the earth, revolve around the sun, and revolve around the galaxy, and
presumably on a galactic level there is some motions too relative to
other bodies.

--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

how fast does our solar system revolve around our galaxy?

holog

Dear holog:

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Roedy Green wrote:
On 12 Nov 2003 22:11:45 -0800, (dingogrid)
wrote or quoted :


What would happen if you simply stood perfectly still?


Einstein said that you have to say still relative to WHAT? the sun,
Sirius?

When you stand perfectly still on earth, you rotate on the surface of
the earth, revolve around the sun, and revolve around the galaxy, and
presumably on a galactic level there is some motions too relative to
other bodies.

--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.

how fast does our solar system revolve around our galaxy?

URL:http://www.chron.com/content/interac...ds/990602.html
226 million years (as determined in 1999).

David A. Smith

dingogrid wrote:

What would happen if you simply stood perfectly still? If the gravity
of the Sun just didn't effect you any body that was effected by the
gravity of the sun would go whizzing by at the speed the sun was
traveling throughout the galaxy. Essentially if the right amount of
gravity from the correct body didn't effect you, you would be dragged
along an arc and you could let other planets come to you. Why go any
where if you could let the destination come to you?

My question is what would the equation be if you wanted to know how
much gravity you wanted to "slip" by you, if you knew the Newtons of
the body's gravity and the distance from that body?

If Newtonian gravity didn't suddenly affect you, you would go flying
off into space with the velocity that you had when gravity cut out.

The rest of your posting is so weird that I would ask you to rephrase
it in terms of physics, not your misconceptions of that science.

John Anderon