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[–] ScorpioGlitch 0 points (+0|-0)

Aye. If you wanted to as perfectly still in space as you can manage to figure out, assuming you're coming from earth, you have to overcome:

  1. Momentum from being around earth.
  2. Momentum from being around the sun.
  3. Momentum from being around the galaxy.
  4. ... the local cluster
  5. and probably some other group/object we haven't figured out yet.

Of course, if you manage to do that, relatively speaking, it's gonna seem like you're zipping around really fast.

Here's something to bake your brain: If you do manage to get this holy grail of stopping ALL of your movement, how does time pass for you?

[–] E-werd 1 points (+1|-0)

Here's something to bake your brain: If you do manage to get this holy grail of stopping ALL of your movement, how does time pass for you?

I don't know, but I certainly think that the way you perceive time and the way time affects you will be two completely different things.

[–] ScorpioGlitch 1 points (+1|-0)

Well.... if time passes normal for you about yourself but faster (watching everything in fast forward) as you approach the speed of light, perhaps time would still seem normal for you but everything approaches "no time" relative if you stop moving. That is to say that, relative to someone on earth, your lifespan would approach infinitesimally short. You'd wink out of existence quickly.

I mean, that just seems to kind of makes sense to me anyways.