Eli5| If you were to drive the *straightest* highway at *immaculate* speeds, would you be able to visualize the curvature of the earth?

Question

Assuming you wouldn’t explode from going mach ba-gillion in a Camry, and other things barred by a neat thing called physics, if you were going like a hundred thousand miles in a minute, or whatever it takes to clear the entire U.S in an hour. Would it all be straight? Or would the road comically start bending downwards?

In: Physics

Answer 1

Your perspective of the earth isn’t changing, you’re just translating your position very fast. The horizon would look just the same. Even if you could travel 50% the speed of light or faster and stay glued to the surface without flying off into space your perspective would not change. You’re simply too close to the earth