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Let me give an example to make it short and clear - suppose we want to travel from China to US i.e east to west . We know that Earth rotates from west to east. Now if we could only manage to hang in the space(like hovering helicopter) just few hundred meters above the ground without actually moving , then the surface below would move due to Earth's motion from west to east and we could be in US or let's say US will come below us just in about 8 hours without actually moving on our own. This might make it virtually possible to travel from anyone place to another in Earth in not more than 24 hours by just hanging on air.
Well there may be some objection on it that even if it is possible , due to certain degree
inclination of Earth's axis, we might travel in an spiral motion and we might not exactly end
up in US or desired location. This could be solved by making a short vertical displacement relative to Earth's latitude. But that is not my main matter of concern. I am actually wondering if Earth would move relative to us if we were hovering is air. Let's reduce the example to origin place just below equatorial plane and destination just above it so the scenario might get closer to possible.
Well we might have some obvious answer like
1)Since we are in Earth and it is very large compared to us so we cannot feel the movement of Earth and of course we cannot travel relative to earth.
2)It doesn't matter if we are in ground or air , in ground we will be moving along with ground and in the space above the ground , we will move along with the space which is turn is in the Earth's atmosphere and atmosphere of Earth is moving along with earth.
3)Everything in Earth is moving in same speed including atmosphere and like such...
But still there are some points that keep me insisting that this phenomena is actually possible.
1)There was an TV program where it was shown that a long pendulum that started to swing in one direction in morning and kept on swinging throughout the day , finally ended up swinging in different trajectory at the end of the day inclined at a certain angle to the original path. This may make it clear that the movement of Earth has some relative impact on objects.
2)Why can't we feel inertial effects on us due to Earth's movement or are we actually having it but we are so adapted to it that we can't feel it?
3)I simply believe that this is possible.
I am just wondering if this phenomena is actually possible and it is being used in flight routes scheduling , in hovercrafts or it isn't possible or it is possible but has not been implemented yet.
I would like to leave you with another short question at last. If a basketball was dropped from a height of 10 km exactly above the center of a basketball court on Earth's surface, would it fall in the center or somewhere else . Let's assume that it takes 10 minutes for ball to hit the ground and let's neglect the effect of air resistance or air flow for this case.
I am anxiously waiting for your thoughts/replies/solution over this matter. I would love to share much more interesting thoughts that I've got related to this matter in future when I get your opinions.
Well there may be some objection on it that even if it is possible , due to certain degree
inclination of Earth's axis, we might travel in an spiral motion and we might not exactly end
up in US or desired location. This could be solved by making a short vertical displacement relative to Earth's latitude. But that is not my main matter of concern. I am actually wondering if Earth would move relative to us if we were hovering is air. Let's reduce the example to origin place just below equatorial plane and destination just above it so the scenario might get closer to possible.
Well we might have some obvious answer like
1)Since we are in Earth and it is very large compared to us so we cannot feel the movement of Earth and of course we cannot travel relative to earth.
2)It doesn't matter if we are in ground or air , in ground we will be moving along with ground and in the space above the ground , we will move along with the space which is turn is in the Earth's atmosphere and atmosphere of Earth is moving along with earth.
3)Everything in Earth is moving in same speed including atmosphere and like such...
But still there are some points that keep me insisting that this phenomena is actually possible.
1)There was an TV program where it was shown that a long pendulum that started to swing in one direction in morning and kept on swinging throughout the day , finally ended up swinging in different trajectory at the end of the day inclined at a certain angle to the original path. This may make it clear that the movement of Earth has some relative impact on objects.
2)Why can't we feel inertial effects on us due to Earth's movement or are we actually having it but we are so adapted to it that we can't feel it?
3)I simply believe that this is possible.
I am just wondering if this phenomena is actually possible and it is being used in flight routes scheduling , in hovercrafts or it isn't possible or it is possible but has not been implemented yet.
I would like to leave you with another short question at last. If a basketball was dropped from a height of 10 km exactly above the center of a basketball court on Earth's surface, would it fall in the center or somewhere else . Let's assume that it takes 10 minutes for ball to hit the ground and let's neglect the effect of air resistance or air flow for this case.
I am anxiously waiting for your thoughts/replies/solution over this matter. I would love to share much more interesting thoughts that I've got related to this matter in future when I get your opinions.