Is everybody on earth moving at the same speed right now?

Answer 1

No. Because of the spherical shape of the planet, and the axis on which it rotates, the equator moves at a faster speed than the areas around the poles.

Think about it this way: if you took 5 seconds to draw a circle around a lamp in your house (this would be like the Earth's pole), and then went outside and took 5 seconds to draw a huge circle around your entire house (this would be like the equator), you'd have to draw the circle around your house much more quickly than the one around the lamp.

Answer 2

No People can be running walking in an aeroplane. All different speeds. If what you mean is on the whole scale of the universe and everything then the answer is still no. Everybody on the earth is moving with the earth which is moving with the solar system which is moving with the galaxy but we can still move at differnet speeds even if it is only very slight

Answer 3

Essentially, yes.

With a radius of 93 million miles, earth marks out 584 million miles on its annual trek. That divided by 365 is 1.6 million miles a day, or quite close to 67,000 miles per hour.

Folks at the equator also spin around about a thousand miles an hour (22,000 miles / 24 hours).

Answer 4

The Earth completes one orbit of the Sun in 365.24 days. The radius of the Earth's orbit ius 93,000,000 miles, approximately.

While the Earth's orbit is an ellipse rather than a circle, the difference is not great; about 3%. So we can say that the Earth's orbit is "approximately" circular.

The formula for the circumference of a circle is 2*radius*pi, where "pi" is - approximately - 3.1412. (Pi is an irrational number; we can never calculate pi precisely, and the sequence of digits never repeats.)

So the Earth's orbit is - about - 2*93,000,000*3.1412, so approximately 584,263,200 miles. The year is 365.24 *24 hours long, or 8,765.76 hours.

So the speed of the Earth in its orbit is 66,652.88 miles per hour.

But the original numbers that we used were only approximations to 3 significant digits, so we cannot report the answer any more precisely; so "66,600 miles per hour" is approximately correct. It is moving a little faster in January, when the Earth is closest to the Sun, and a bit slower in July, when it is furthest away, but sometimes close is good enough.

What MAKES the Earth travel this fast? Nothing MAKES it this speed; it IS moving at this speed. If the Earth was further from the Sun, then it would be moving more slowly. And if the Earth had formed closer in, it would be moving more quickly. With no friction, there is nothing to slow the Earth down, and without a rocket engine, there isn't anything to speed it up. Which is probably just as well, since we evolved with the Earth the way it is, and we wouldn't be as happy in some other orbit.

Answer 5

No they are not. There components of speed can be broken down according to size. Everyone is moving around the sun with the Earth at the same speed. But since the rotation of the Earth causes people to move faster at the equator then at the poles. Peoples speed when moving around the earth is different. There is also the fact that in a persons local position they are moving at different speed to each other.

Answer 6

No, everyone on Earth is not moving at the same speed. The speed at which individuals are moving depends on factors such as their location on Earth's surface, elevation above sea level, and their velocity relative to objects around them. These factors contribute to varying speeds for people on Earth.