Think about it more fundamentally. Instead of a person with senses, think of an object experiencing forces. Thats what an inertial reference frame means.
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tomi000@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoThe first part made sense, then you contradicted yourself at the end^^ If the universe moves around you, you could literally see things moving. It would be the same as you moving relative to everything else
Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But senses are just ways for an object to experience forces.
I know if I’m hanging upside down because my senses are telling me my body is being pulled down from my head. I’m feeling the gravitational force pulling me down.
An object moving in the universe is indistinguishable to the universe moving around an object. To any observer or to the object itself the forces experienced are the same
tomi000@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exactly. Seeing was just an example. The whole universe moving around an object would cause that object to experience forces.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Seeing things counts as something hitting you: photons.
tomi000@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
True. But then thats not the exception