Life in Motion

Move like earth

The Earth moves at 40,270 km/h, and yet we don’t feel it. Maybe because we’re standing too far away from the spinning axis - 6,371 kilometers too far! Now, if we extend the same theory to our own bodies, assuming my hand is 1 meter away from my spinning axis, I would need to “spin” at 0.18 centimeters per second, and you wouldn’t feel it. That’s just under 2 millimeters a second!

Most of the time, our hands move too fast, and our core axis, not moving. So when pushing hands, the force is felt immediately. Hey, we feel it when sitting in a car going a mere 80km/h, but do not feel the Earth moving and more than 40,000 km/h! According to my theory above, we actually only need to move at 0.18 cm/s at our core, and not move our hands at all, so that our opponent won’t feel a thing.

So if theory is your thing, and assuming we’re governed by the same Earth laws, I think we need to seriously slow down our movements to have a chance of infiltrating the opponent without them knowing! Talk about stealth…

For those keen on the mathematical bits:

Earth velocity = 40,270 km/h

Earth radius = 6,371 km

Hand radius = 0.001 km

Based on this ratio, the hand velocity would need to be moving at:

0.001/6371 * 40270km/h

= 0.006321 km/h

= 0.18 cm/s

This is a mathematical extension of my ice-cream theory.

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