Why don't we feel earth moving? ?

Question

Seriously why don't we? I mean could a scientist or someone please explain it?? thanks!!

Answer 1

We are all on it moving together. Conservation of momentum.  If you are at the North or South pole you are just rotating very very slowly (once around every 24 hrs_).... but if you at the equater you are moving 1000s of miles per hour in order to get around to the starting point in 24 hrs (sorry, I forget how fast....= (diameter of earth in miles/24 hrs) = miles/hr).

Interesting fact.........the earth's rotation is slowing down slowly but surely because of all the water sloshing around on the surface.  Sure, the oceans are just a little skim on top of this big old globe but they slosh and therefore are not so firmly attached as the rest of us and they are causing the entire planet's rotation to slow.  Compare spinning an uncooked egg with a hard boiled egg to see what I mean.

Answer 2

Because the human body is not capable of sensing constant motion, it can only sense acceleration and deceleration.

Answer 3

you see movement, and your brain translates that into feeling movement.

you feel acceleration.

sometime when you're on a train in the station, and there's another train on the track next to you, watch that train.

if it starts moving, you think you're moving.

your eyes see it, and your brain creates the sensation.

here on earth, it's static.

that's fairly fortunate.

it's good for your brain to be able to tell when you're falling.

if it were to be confused by feeling movement all the time, then the little change produced by falling would be barely noticeable.

so, you don't feel movement.

you feel change.

when you see you're moving, your mind creates the sensation.

but when you ride in a train or nice car, you often don't feel the motion.

most certainly  not the 60 mph you might be doing.

because you're not speeding up or slowing down or bouncing up and down.

Answer 4

Because we are moving with it.  When you are on an airplane does it feel like you are going hundreds of mph?

Answer 5

Because were moving along with it!

Answer 6

It's moving at constant speed and moving smoothly so there's no accelerations or jerks to feel.

Answer 7

Because it never accelerates (or decelerates).  This means it never gets faster or slower and it never changes direction.  It's like riding in a car.  If you couldn't hear of see the movement and the car kept at a constant speed and direction you wouldn't feel it either.

Answer 8

  Movement requires a change in speed to feel it.

Answer 9

This is a complex question that has many parts to the complete answer. So, I will give you the main two parts. One, as long as you are on this moving earth, you are part of it, moving with it in every respect. That's why you can't notice the earth slipping by you under your feet. Second, the earth is constantly changing directions as it orbits the sun, and as this solar system is being carried around the galaxy, and as the galaxy is being carried off in whatever orbit it has. So in essense, your body has many different accelerations to it. But the main one, GRAVITY to earth, is so overwhelming that the others can't be felt. Also, that the others are miniscule and the curvature of their motions is so long compared to your tiny body, that again, you can't feel them. Another way of looking at this - Nature built you to live on this planet, complete with all the senses, and those semicircular canals in the ear. Nature would be a dismal failure if she forced you to feel things that don't concern your stay here. I think you get what I mean here.