If you run 10mph inside of a train that is moving 100mph, are you moving 110mph or 100mph?

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If you run 10mph inside of a train that is moving 100mph, are you moving 110mph or 100mph?

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Relative to what? To the train you’re running 10mph, to the ground you’re running 110mph, to space in which the Earth spins you’re running 1,110mph (well, assuming the train is going east; if it’s headed west you’re running 890mph).

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