Can you identify the direction of your movement? Let's say

hadaasyj

hadaasyj

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2022-04-26

Can you identify the direction of your movement? Let's say ship moving nose forward, or tail forward? Is there a sense of "direction of movement" in such an inertial frame of reference?

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sexe4yo

sexe4yo

Beginner2022-04-25Added 1 answers

Again, movement is defined only with reference to some frame. If you are on a moving train and you start walking toward a toilet at the front of the train, you are actually experiencing train moving backwards, even though someone stationed on the ground would swear it moves forward.
In your case there is only one reference frame and that is the frame of the spaceship and everything is at rest in its own frame of reference (things are not moving relative to themselves).

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