Why we don`t feel the motion of the Earth?
Sakshi Education

Similarly, we know that the Earth is in motion, but our body doesn't experience it. This is because of the Earth's uniform motion without any ups and downs. Though the Earth is moving with uniform speed, it is not moving along a straight line but in a curved path. so, we on the Earth should fall a way from the centre of that curved path. But its not happening. This is because of the size of the Earth and the extent of the curved path. The Earth is so big...so that the curved part of the path will not change all of a sudden as in the case of a car taking a turn, but changes slowly so that that change can be hardly felt and its motion is almost will be like that of a straight path. So, we don't feel any external force acting up on us, which means we feel that we are moving along a straight path. That's why though the Earth is rotating around itself, we don't rotate.
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Published date : 20 Nov 2013 02:54PM