Recent content by Rakky

Excellent! This is fascinating stuff. I'm not a physicist - actually, physics was the only course in high school in which I ever failed a final exam (what can I say? It was the 70s). I'm not college educated, either, so some of the stuff you all are pointing me to won't ever make complete sense...

OK, thanks. What about my initial question: "would you say that each moment of a person's lifetime is spent at a unique point in space?"

Hi, From a retired thread I (roughly) quote the following: "To plot the path that a point on the Earth takes through space, you would need to calculate these movements: The Earth relative to the Sun. The Sun relative to the Galaxy centre. The Galaxy relative to the Local Group. The...