When using De Broglie’s formulas to calculate the wavelengths of different objects, we typically use the speed of that object relative to an observer. But as we know celestial bodies are also moving through space with some velocity, and so every object on Earth is moving with the speed of the Earth +- the velocity of that object. Why do we not consider this when applying these formulas?
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Perhaps because the relative speed given is always assumed without the delta as a sort of standardization. That way speed is always isolated regardless of location, but ambient is not always constant between celestial bodies.
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