What Goes Up Theoretically Goes Sideways First

It's often been said that what goes up must come down, but we know that's not always true either. After all, the Mars Rover went up and it's sitting on Mars, and we may never see it back on Earth again. We also have many satellites sitting in geosync, and others that are going around our planet, which may never come down, or at least not for hundreds and hundreds of years. Not long ago, I was talking to a mathematician and physicist about this, and he said there is always a less than 1% chance that what goes up won't come down. That makes sense.

Now then, in speaking with this genius it reminded me of something else. And that is everything is in constant motion because our planet's surface is spinning around at 600 miles per hour, and our planet is moving around the Sun at 12,500 miles per hour, and the Sun is moving around the Milky Way galaxy at tens of thousands of miles an hour, and the Milky Way galaxy is also moving around the universe at a huge clip. Therefore, when you throw something up in the air, it may look like it comes straight back down, but it doesn't.

In fact if we speak about the theory of relativity, it probably goes sideways in a curved fashion hundreds of miles before it comes down. Now then, that might be hard to wrap your mind around, but theoretically it is true. That is to say what goes up theoretically goes sideways first for a great distance before it comes down. Imagine you are flying in an airliner halfway around the world, you may think that you're going to the other side of the planet, but don't forget the planet is spinning around as well, and the Earth is moving at 12,500 miles an hour even if the jet you are flying it is only going about 400 or 500 miles per hour.

And you may think that you flew a curved flight-path, but if you are able to look at the actual flight-path, you may have gone backwards and sideways more than 100,000 miles during your trip, and that in itself is a trip when you think about it. Therefore when you think that "what goes up, must come down" maybe you should stop and consider how ignorant that statement really is if you jump out of your relative skewed view of the world. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

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