Everything is in motion

I’m studying surveying. The whole point of my job is, to locate things accurately. But the first thing we learn, is that, there isn’t a fix point anywhere in the whole wide galaxy. It is hard to imagine isn’t it? Like, you can say your address, and everybody is going to find your house as long as it isn’t demolished. Well, in my job it is a little bit harder. We have coordinate systems, what we use to tell where the places are. The problem is, even these coordinate systems are based on an assumption, because everything is moving. Let’s go back to hat house. Examine it, what movements does it do.

The basic movements of a house are sinking and sliding. Let’s go farther. The ground that it is on is moving. It can rotate, sink, slide, raise, or others. The continent is also moving. The earth has more kind of moves, then what I can count on my hands. It is spinning around, rotating, tipping, orbiting. The solar system is also moving. It is moving closer to the Hercules constellation, and it is also orbiting around the axis of the Milky way. The Milky way is also moving.

See, everything is in motion. In a blink of the eye we are far far away from the spot from where we were before, without noticing it. There isn’t a single spot that you call fix spot. There isn’t not a even anything that we can refer too. I just said everything is moving. How we know that? We look out, and what we see is that, other planets are getting farther from us. So this is why we say that, we move faster than they are. Like you sit in a car. Everything is dark around you, you don’t feel anything. You look out the window, the only thing you see, as the lights of an other car, and they are getting farther from you. This is the only thing, that let you think you moving faster then the other car. What if there aren’t other car. You couldn’t even tell, that you move or not, and if you do, how fast you go. This is how we leave here in the galaxy. Always in motion, but never knowing where we headed or how fast are we going.