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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Context is everything.

From the perspective of the station, 110mph.

From the perspective of a passenger, 10mph.

From the perspective of the sun, roughly the speed of the earth’s orbit.

From the perspective of a bead of sweat on your body, not at all

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