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[–] FMT99@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This implies there's an absolute center to the universe relative to which the earth moves but spirits do not.

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or you just maintain your velocity at death. With no other forces, that's the way you head forever

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But this character died stationary on the floor. Unless it's the Earth moving away from her as part of its normal orbit, in which case she'll get to visit it again soon

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No because the sun and the earth are always moving in a line and an orbit in addition to their orbit.

The actual absolute position would resemble a curving helix or something. Nothing in the universe is ever in the same general location twice for our current understanding. Everything is moving.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not exactly. Things are moving relative to each other, but it really is all relative and local. There's no central point in the universe that the earth is moving away from. The earth is moving relative to the sun. But relative to you, the earth isn't moving. Relative to the earth, the sun is moving.

There's no reason for her to move away from the earth unless she's being accelerated by something. It's not like the earth would zip away because it is moving relative to some distant, arbitrary point and she suddenly becomes "stationary". There's no universal "stationary".

I guess where it gets messy is that the earth IS being accelerated to some extent by different things (other planets, the moon, etc). I'm not sure how much. So if she didn't accelerate along with it at all, it would move away from her.

[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

If she is still affected by gravity, but passes through matter, she would immedietly fall through the floor and start orbiting the earth through the planet.

Without gravity she would no longer follow the earth's/sun's/etc. orbit.