Serious question?
Can the rotation of the Earth play a role in performance on a point to point course? In other words if you're running with the rotation of the Earth will you run faster vs running against it?
Serious question?
Can the rotation of the Earth play a role in performance on a point to point course? In other words if you're running with the rotation of the Earth will you run faster vs running against it?
I might be a fool but this one is obvious: an emphatic NO. Think about it for a second.
Only if you're on a treadmill and the engines provide enough thrust. Then you can take off. Good luck!
Yes the rotation can play a role. It's not very significant though, but there was a thread on here a while ago about this. Ask Einstein. He knows something about it.
Wow most retard (serious) post of the year?
i feel retarded for responding to this, but i will. even if such were the case, which i highly doubt, you would have to run opposite the earths rotation in order to receive any "benefit" from it, as the ground would, hypothetically, pass underneath you, causing you to cover more ground, yada yada.
but i dont think it works like that
i won't ridicule you, because i wondered the same thing to myself in 2nd grade. here's how i figured out the answer: if you toss a baseball straight up in the air, does it land in your hand or does the earth's rotation carry you 30 feet away from the ball before it comes down?
Yeah, its deffinatly not going to give you any benifit. I think it works under the same physical principle that prevents you from jumping at the last second when you are in a falling elevator.
Definitely. Most of my world records have come with me running with, as opposed to against, the rotation of the sun. Despite what you know who said what, the earth stands still and the sun moves around the earth.
Isn't Creationism great?
It's all about scale. The earth is rotating so fast in comparison that you running is going to have all but a negligible impact.
Basically the surface of the earth is rotation at a angular velocity of ~1000mph. You're running ~10-15. That's orders of magnitude.
We already had this thread a few weeks ago, jerkface:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?board=1&id=2226018&thread=2226018