Originally Posted by sherwood
you moron
You all right man?
it will speed up as you speed up, get on a tredmil and start walkign and have somone increase the speed as you speed up, see how far you get
So the treadmill will keep accelerating away from me while I keep moving my legs faster and faster trying to accelerate away from it...but I stand in place. Kind of like this....
Well, that is not the situation the riddle is describing, because the treadmill cannot move from right to left unless I move from left to right. See that car in the .gif? It is not moving dude. Its velocity is 0. I don't care if its speedometer says 1000000000, if it doesn't go from left to right it is NOT moving. Just because I'm standing in place and my legs (or wheels) are moving does NOT mean I have a forward velocity.
If the car cannot move, it opens up the possibility that the treadmill is not moving, the car is not moving...but the wheels are moving. How can that be?