I’ve always wondered this and I don’t think I Learned about it in school, it’s so confusing to me
In: Mathematics
Imagine we are walking together on a track and I decide that I want to count how many steps it takes me to complete a lap. 32 steps in, I bring up the fact that I’m counting my steps and you think it’d be cool to count and compare your steps to mine so you start counting too. Now, I’m a pretty short person so I take a lot of steps to complete the lap, 212 steps to be precise. You’re taller than me and started counting part of the way in so it only took you 100 steps.
When you first started counting your steps I was already 32 steps in. My 33rd step and your 1st step happened at the same time, but your first step isnt as long as my 33 steps, we just started counting at different spots.
To show this even further imagine that you have a twin brother who started counting steps way before me. When you start, he’s already 273 steps in. Now you guys are the same height because you’re twins so your steps are the same length. Your first step happens at the same time as his 274th step but it’s wrong to say that your 1 step covered the same distance as his 274.
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