Eli5: why when I’m standing on a moving train and I jump, the train doesn’t move around me?

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Eli5: why when I’m standing on a moving train and I jump, the train doesn’t move around me?

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Because you were already moving in the same direction by standing in the train. If the train crashed with a sudden stop, what would kill you is the fact that you were moving just as fast but now the train isn’t.

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