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09-19-2005, 01:03 PM

Originally Posted by SinJin
Basically my question is - Does everything in the universe move?

Using a few concepts from physics, we can answer this question more physically than philosophically.
A direct answer is: find the kinetic origin of the potential energy.
A little more roundabout way is to answer this question by another question: Is the spin of the universe detectable? Detecting this universal spin is the same as sitting oneself in the absolute frame of the unmovable aether. Only at this aether location can one begins to measure the spin of the universe. Anywhere else is just an inertial frame, which can be moving or not moving relative to another neighboring inertial frame.
  
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