186) “People sensitive to motion sickness feel distinct unease and physical
discomfort from motion as slight as an elevator or a train ride. This means
that the 1000mph alleged uniform spin of the Earth has no effect on such
people, but add an extra 50mph uniform velocity of a car and their stomach
starts turning knots. The idea that motion sickness is nowhere apparent in anyone
at 1000mph, but suddenly comes about at 1050mph is ridiculous and proves the
Earth is not in motion whatsoever.”
Since Mr Dubay
loves to repeat himself, it seems I will have to, as well.
I’ve already
answered “we can’t feel the Earth moving.”’ Again, we never feel
movement; we feel changes in movement. If we were in a very smooth and silent
train, running down very even unjointed rails on a dead-straight track at an
unchanging speed, we wouldn’t feel or hear a thing. If the blinds were closed,
we could not tell that we were moving at all.
Of course, no
real vehicle is every that perfect; there are always some little jiggles or
sways, at least. But the Earth doesn’t rest on a road, or run on rails. It
moves at a constant pace and a constant course through the empty vacuum of
space. What is there to jiggle us?
When we feel the
motion of a car, it's because the driver has turned the wheel, or braked
or accelerated, or because an unevenness in the road made the car lurch
sideways or up and down. None of these changes in course or speed happen to the
earth. So there is nothing for us to feel.
Dubay
says; "This means that
the 1000mph alleged uniform spin of the Earth has no effect on such people, but
add an extra 50mph uniform velocity of a car and their stomach starts turning
knots."
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But it is not the extra 50 mph in itself that causes sickness, but the smaller repeated swaying, jiggling, turning motions, which confuse the motion-sensitive parts of our inner ears. There's nothing in space to cause the earth to make such small jumps, swerves and wiggles, so there is no motion sickness.
When we feel
motion, it is because there are tiny hairlike sensor in our semicircular
canals
(http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/How-Our-Balance-System-Works/) in
our inner ears, immersed in fluid. When the fluid is jiggled, the hairs
pick up the motion and transmit a signal to out brains, so that we feel the
sensation of a change in the direction or rate of movement. But the earth
never changes direction or jolts , so what is there to feel?
Anticipating a misunderstanding: yes, the path of the earth is a curve (an ellipse –nearly but not quite a circle). But that won’t give the sensation of “turning a corner. The orbit of th earth is as it is precisely because it is an exact balance between the gravitational attraction of the sun and the outward effect of ‘centrifugal force (actually inertia. And the strength of both of these is constant over time, so there is no change for your inner ear to sense.
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