Neptune - Alarmingly Bad

MacedWindow@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Klear@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

You forget there is no absolute inertial system and what you describe is completely arbitrary and makes no sense.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 months ago

The whole concept of a celestial body just stopping somewhere without exploding into dust is also arbitrary and makes no sense.

Klear@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

Of course it makes sense - a genie did it. Pay attention!

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 months ago

True true, my bad.

CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

I guess you could be stationary relative to the CMB?

Klear@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

You could, but that frame of reference is not special in any way.

KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world · edit-2 5 months ago

That’s why I define all movement based on a reference frame centered on me.
I wasn’t speeding, officer. The road was.

Klear@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 5 months ago

- “Do you know why I stopped you?”
- “You didn’t. I was at rest the whole time.”