Which Way is East? (and What Happens in the Outer Space)

When I say western culture, I'm confused because Europe is west from Japan but America is east.

Looking at a world map, the American continent is located far East from Japan...

You may be puzzled too.

The cause of this question is that types of world maps differ from countries.

It was not until I went to Canada that I knew the map I had known was not the global standard.

I figured out why this area is called Far East then.

North, south, east and west are useful but relative index.

East from here is west from further east.

Come to think of it, this index is functional just on the earth. As you know the directions are based on magnetic field of the earth. What will happen in the space age? There is no north. What will be the guide of the sea of outer space? The earth or sun cannot be the pointer because all things being are in flux endlessly. Will people make an absolute coordinate?

In that case, it will also be hard because everything is moving as I mentioned. For example, my existence address is changing every one millisecond because I'm on the moving earth and the moving earth is in an expanding universe.

My address is moving at over 1000000km per hour, I'm totally not exact, though.

It's funny to think that moving as fast as the earth means 'still' on the earth. If we saw the absolute-coordinatly still thing, it obviously looks like it's moving, too fast to be obvious.

I'm no expert so I can't think about it further but I realized NSWE is a really convenient index as long as we won't leave the earth.

Yes I'd rather say "please go to north for 1km" instead of "go to the point which is 2633as23,3868hs67,3765go96,2578as09 at 76767754443 milliseconds sharp later."

Hahaha.

Thanks to Lavender's correction.

Tanaka-san learns English

Which Way is East? (and What Happens in the Outer Space)

Tanaka san

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