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> If you travelled back in time to 1852, where physically would you be?
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> Not on the Earth as it wasn't at this point in space in 1852...
By my reckoning you'd be about 1/3rd of light year away from where the Solar System was then.
The local group of galaxies that includes ours is moving at roughly 600 km/sec towards a supercluster called the Great Attractor, and light speed is about 300,000 km/sec in a vacuum.
The galaxy is also obviously rotating, but a lot slower I think, and I can't be bothered to pursue that.
Sasguru, I realise you must be a near-neighbour, living as we both do in uber-trendy Hoxton (ha!) - though my flat there is more of a garret than a loft.
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