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It means that when you're in a passenger jet, flying 35,000 feet above the ground and moving

past the ground at 500 miles per hour, you have no problem reading the book in your hand,

because the book is also moving past the ground at 500 miles per hour; relative to you, the book

isn't moving at all, so you have no problem focusing on it.

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