One point on the earth’s surface moves 460 meters in one second from A to B which would look very fast if you would be very near to earth frozen in place looking at it. I know that’s not possible because your position is relative to earth and there is no absolute center in the galaxy and that it is always about relativity to something and stuff, which I also don’t really get.
But I am just wondering right now, how come it looks so slow from so far away?
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Your field of vision is more or less a cone. It’s narrow close to your face and wide far away. But your brain doesn’t recognise that perfectly.
You don’t have any way to just judge speed like a radar gun. You can only judge perceived distance (across your field of vision) over time.
Putting those two together, something up close to your face will spend little time in your field of vision. It’s “fast”. Something far away takes ages to cross your entire field of vision. It’s “slow”. Even if in reality the thing far away is traveling several times faster.
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