So where is this starting point?
The center of the Big Bang.
So how fast are we going? If you believe in the big bang, you must also then believe that it happened at
least 6 billion years ago, and that the explosion had tremendous force that your tiny human mind (given it's obviously tinier than most) couldn't possibly comprehend.
So then you mean to tell me such an epic explosion has some how managed to send our little disc soaring through space at an ever so gentle, and CONSTANT 9.8m/s-2 (taken right from your faq) over 6 billion years ago? We would be traveling far faster than the speed of light by now, which is mathematically, and physically impossible for one, and for two, it doesn't make any sense because such an explosion would almost certainly send everything into all different directions, and at different speeds and at unpredictable trajectories. So it must be MAGIC then that keeps us accelerating at such a constant speed.
Oh wait, your FAQ also states it could be an external force of
gravity that acts on us to keep us on the ground... well that source would HAVE to be below our little "coin" and would thus be dragging us backwards... that would mean one of several things. One, that since we are being dragged by it, we would have to be traveling backwards, and for us to be traveling at such as speed without flying off the Earth from the negative g's that it would cause, that would mean this object is pulling us powerfully enough that we would eventually crash into it, which also means this gravity would gradually get stronger and stronger. For us to not get dragged into it, it would mean that we would have to be revolving around said object to maintain constant distance from this object. That means centrifugal force (the same thing that tries to fling you off a merry go round if it spins too quickly) would fling us off anyway.
Or maybe that's magic too :rolleyes: