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How fast are you moving right now?

Tucker Hiatt · TED

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About

"How fast are you moving?" seems like an easy question, but it's actually quite complicated -- and perhaps best answered by another question: "Relative to what?" Even when you think you're standing still, the Earth is moving relative to the Sun, which is moving relative to the Milky Way, which is...you get the idea. Tucker Hiatt unravels the concepts of absolute and relative speed. [Directed by Zedem Media, narrated by Addison Anderson].

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Tucker Hiatt
Year
2014
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Physics, Astronomy and space
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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