Passage 8

In English

For example, I am sitting on this chair. If the chair shakes I too will shake. This is a fact. But the earth on which we are living is moving at a speed of thousands of miles per hour. Even then we are not experiencing this speed. Therefore, is this experience true, or that? The chair can actually move only when we move. But we feel the other way. This kind of experience pertains only to the mundane daily life. Take another example. As long as we are on the ground, we may designate East, West, South and North. But when we go into space there is nothing of this sort. So then again, is this true or that? A scientist knows very well that there is nothing like sunset or sunrise. But he is also experiencing the effect of ‘sunset’ or ‘sunrise’.