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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago

Your forget that the sun isnt stationary. Our whole solar system would slowly move away from anything truly stationary while we continue our orbit of the milky way. It would take a good while but after a few years neptune would be pretty far from the sun. If it got stopped while in the path of the sun tho, it might just get run over by the sun and we would all die.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 12 points 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 11 points 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 10 points 5 months ago

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

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

True true, my bad.

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I guess you could be stationary relative to the CMB?

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

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

[-] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 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 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

- "Do you know why I stopped you?"
- "You didn't. I was at rest the whole time."

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