I was sitting on the train yesterday watching a bumblebee fluttering around the window. Why is it that the bumblebee is not touching any part of the moving train yet moves with the train? Why doesn't it get flung against the back of the carriage?
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The air inside the train is moving just as fast as the train is. This is the same air that the bee if fluttering around in. So relative to the bee, the window, the train and you, the air is standing still.
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Why would it be flung against the back of the carriage? This is all much easier with General Relativity. You and the bee are on the train. The train picks up "speed" by the friction of the wheels on the rails moving the Earth backwards. You and the bee are still reasonably stationary. (with respect to the train).
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because the bee is fixated on objects close to it and uses that as a benchmark despite the external forces pulling on it; a life lesson for all people; you can dream about theorys and alien conspiracies but your focus needs to be whats right in front of you, make money, pay your bills.
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