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Weird science question?
We were travelling in the car yesterday when my five year old son asked why things were going by the car faster on one side than the other. We had houses to one side, and open fields to the other. I know what he meant, that we seemed to be going faster past the houses than the field. It's obviously a perception thing, but I was wondering what it's called?
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- Facts MatterLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
The farther away something is, the slower you need to turn your head to keep looking at it as you drive by (this is what the other answers are saying, but in posher language).
Take an extreme example. the Sun and the moon don't seem to move when you're driving any differently from when you're standing still.
- boojumukLv 61 decade ago
Have you ever looked up past a tall building and watched the clouds move, only it looks as if the building is actually doing the moving? Same phenomenon, the human mind can't embrace massive objects moving, like the sky or clouds, so it fools itself into thinking that the smaller ones move. You can see more open space with fields, so the perspective makes it seem to be moving slowly, whereas a comparatively small house is past you and gone in seconds. Any wiser? No, me neither!
