Whne you jump on a train do you ‘slip’ backwards, because the train moved under you? No, you don’t. Why? Because you have inertia. When you jump you don’t magically come to a halt, you continue moving at the same speed as the train, so you don’t move realtive to it. It’s the same with Voyager. It didn’t come to a halt when we launched it, it moves at the same speed as our solar system and thus doesn’t ‘slip away’.
By slip sideways, I actually meant “move with us, in the direction the solar system is moving”. Relativity, I guess. So I was asking if it does what you explained it does. Thank you.
Whne you jump on a train do you ‘slip’ backwards, because the train moved under you? No, you don’t. Why? Because you have inertia. When you jump you don’t magically come to a halt, you continue moving at the same speed as the train, so you don’t move realtive to it. It’s the same with Voyager. It didn’t come to a halt when we launched it, it moves at the same speed as our solar system and thus doesn’t ‘slip away’.
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By slip sideways, I actually meant “move with us, in the direction the solar system is moving”. Relativity, I guess. So I was asking if it does what you explained it does. Thank you.