When you walk forward in a train, you are faster than the train. amirite?

If the train is stationary then any direction will do.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

From the reference frame of the train any direction will do also.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Mad take

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Depends on the point of view!

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Exactly, you are slower than the girl running from you

by Anonymous 3 years ago

For now.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Username checks out

by Anonymous 3 years ago

He leveled up

by Anonymous 3 years ago

From my point of view the Jedi are evil!

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Well then you are lost!

by Anonymous 3 years ago

If you're not with me, then you're my enemy.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

A strangely absolute statement.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I was torn between saying that, and not breaking RP

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Einstein moment

by Anonymous 3 years ago

They call em ‘reference frames'

by Anonymous 3 years ago

from my point of view the Jedi are running!

by Anonymous 3 years ago

From every perspective you're still faster than the train

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Not from the perspective of someone moving in the same direction as you but faster than the train (say, in a very speedy vehicle or an aircraft). In his perspective, the train is moving away from him along with you, but you are moving away at a slower speed.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Not if you look at it from the other side. Then, the train goes at let's say 1 speed and you, working in the other direction, go a little slower.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

But you will still be faster than the train. The only way Is if the observer is going more than half of persons speed in comparison to the train. Only then wil the train seem faster.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Hmm. Now my mind doesn't know what to think anymore \^^ thanks for blowing my mind. I'll need an hour of extra sleep to get this outta my system tonight ;).

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Not if you look at it from the perspective of moving through space. If the train is travelling away from Earth's movement in space, then you walk forward, you are travelling through space slower than the train.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

from the perspective of the origin point of the singularity, if the train is traveling in a direction towards the singularity (thus making its relative velocity lower than the earth) walking "forward" on a train would compound this problem, and therefore make you slower.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Forward

by Anonymous 3 years ago

psh, duh, thank you mr. Einstein

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Unless it's travelling at the speed of light

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Or unless you're traveling at the speed of light

by Anonymous 3 years ago

how would this happen? lets say you are in a train that is going at the speed of light in space and you run forward through the carriages, wouldn't you technically be going quicker than the speed of light? i think im missing something here...

by Anonymous 3 years ago

It's hard to explain but time and distance slow down and contract as speed increases. The effect is amplified the closer you get to the speed of light so you can never go faster than it.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Nothing can accelerate faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. The train in a vacuum is an inertial reference frame which is the same as all other reference frames. As such, walking in the train feels the same as any other train on earth. You are faster than the train relative to the train and only the train. However, you cannot be faster than the speed of light, so what occurs is time dilates and the length of the train contracts to outside observers to account for the difference of speed inside the train. Very simplified and probably inaccurate at some parts, but this is the gist of it

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Most likely something couldn't be built to help you exert enough force to take a step. I imagine hitting the cosmic speed limit is like hitting a lead wall. You'd only be accelerating (relative to you) a small bit maybe to 99.999% (if you're lucky) so you'd be pushing against that wall lightly.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

The train can't move at the speed of light, so it's not a problem.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

If the train going at 99.99%of light speed and do that would i go fast as light

by Anonymous 3 years ago

No. Nothing with mass can go at the speed of light.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

yet

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Yet what?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

He means nothing with mass can go at the speed of light yet.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Well it is physically impossible

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Well...Yet! /s

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Relative to the ground yeah, but from your perspective the train is stationary. With the same logic, walking East makes you faster than the earth.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Relative to the earth's orbit only, the entire solar system is also orbiting around the centre of the Milky way, which is also flying around in space

by Anonymous 3 years ago

So then we wait until the aphelion and run as fast as we can at night

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I have no idea what you're talking about and i doubt you do either but i like it

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Haha well it does sound kinda like witchcraft I guess. The aphelion is when the earth is furthest from the sun, and when it's night the earth is facing away from the sun, so it's the maximum tangent to the circumference of our orbit to the sun to be running with the direction of the rotation of the planet.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Walk west and feel the power

by Anonymous 3 years ago

East, right? Earth rotates W->E?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I stand corrected!

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Almost like speed is relative. Or something.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

what if the earths rotation in the opposite direction is faster than the train … then you're slower

by Anonymous 3 years ago

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by Anonymous 3 years ago

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by Anonymous 3 years ago

Finish into the direction of an easterly wind, preferably into one of the jet streams. Either that, or let elon hitch you a ride up to space and let gravity do the rest.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

When a train is travelling down the track, there is always part of the wheels moving backwards.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Unless you walk forwards against the direction of the train's travel.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Aka backwards

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Ahh, I see you've languaged before.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

You know, im am a something of a english myself.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Micheal Jackson has entered the chat

by Anonymous 3 years ago

No. Forwards.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Unless you're walking in some direction other than the direction of motion, in which case you're slower than the train

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Einstein told that long ago !

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Word

by Anonymous 3 years ago

When you walk towards the west you are faster than the earth

by Anonymous 3 years ago

When you walk forward on the said train and turn on a flash light... the light is still only going speed of light.. the speed of the train and you walking does not get added.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Good god. 😭

by Anonymous 3 years ago

The train plus you are faster than the train... you are not faster than the train even in the given situation to be accurate.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

If the train was traveling at the speed of light…

by Anonymous 3 years ago

So i could easily walk across country on a train

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Relatively.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

If you shine a flashlight forward on a moving train, those photons are not moving faster than the ones coming from a stationary flashlight pointed them same direction outside the train.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

From your point of view the train is the one that's moving.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

If in moving I think the ultimate speed being travelled by yourself is only possible because you are in the moving train, so essentially you have at that point become a person-train hybrid thing... I wonder if they can use this to get to light speed... like if you and your train where put on another train... and then keep stacking it...

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Faster mabye but never further then the train

by Anonymous 3 years ago

What if you move forward to the back of the train

by Anonymous 3 years ago

After you poop, you weigh less.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

when you walk in light, you are flash?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Your calculations forget about the rotation of the Earth.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

No, you're just catching up to the front of the front carriage.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Not true if you walk off of it

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Umm yes relatively.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Up until the speed of light, then for some inexplicable reason you cant go any faster...

by Anonymous 3 years ago

You're not faster than the train, but you are moving faster than the train.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

That is generally assumed when saying that one thing is faster than another in a context like this.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

When you walk forward in a lightspeed ship, you are faster-- (Albert Einstein has entered the chat)

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Running backwards while the train is going forwards will result in you running on the world's biggest treadmill

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Inb4 relativity

by Anonymous 3 years ago

OP studied physics👍🏻

by Anonymous 3 years ago

theoretically… if you had a train in a train the train inside will move twice as fast, so if you keep doing it you can go the speed of light, right?

by Anonymous 3 years ago

when you walk forward on the earth, you are faster than the earth.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Cue the flat earther argument of no relative velocity…

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Relative to earth

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Trains are immobile, it's the earth beneath it that moves

by Anonymous 3 years ago