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Compared with a completely still universal reference point, how fast am I moving and in which direction?
Chris Daniel
Glan Conwy, UK
Right now, you are probably stationary relative to your surroundings. But Earth is on its daily rotation about its axis, so, relative to a point in space just above you, east at up to 1670 kilometres per hour, depending on how close you are to the equator. Earth is also orbiting the sun at around 107,000 km/h in an anticlockwise direction as viewed from the North Pole.
Meanwhile, the stars in our neighbourhood…
