Picture me how I 'WALK' & I give you $1.000.000

From: Boyan (boyan_at_atitud.cam)
Date: 10/20/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 03:37:28 +0200

Picture me how I 'WALK' & I shall give you $1.000.000 :-)

OK, was kidding a bit. But I do wonder if someone here can portray me
a picture of how we move through space... By my own limited imagination
and using Google.com I came up with this. Clarifying this is appreciated.

Imagine this example:

1) I am walking through train carriages at 3 km/h.

2) I am traveling with train at speed of 100 km/h.

3) I am rotating, with train, around Earth at 1,670 km/h.

4) I am orbiting, with Earth, around Sun at 107,000 km/h.

5) I am moving, with Solar System, with respect to the
nearby stars at 72,000 km/h.

6) I am spinning, with Solar System, in spiral around
Milky Way centre at 828,000 km/h.

7) I am moving, with our Galaxy Milky Way, toward
the center of the Local Group at 144,000 km/h.

8) I am moving, with Local Group of galaxies (Local Supercluster),
at about 2,200,000 km/h relative to the universe as a whole.

9) I am moving, with everything, through space while Universe expands at ???

Is 9th point even to consider -- do we move because of Universe expansion?
Are presented velocities correct? Are there other motions in space?

This is how we move through space and we don't even consider it, right?
(Not that it is practical for our life, but it is interesting to picture...)

So, in more of "fun spirit" I'd ask this:
By above example (or something similar but "fixed") if you walk
for 10 meters, how many kilometers you travel in space-time?

While here I'd like to point you to this article and ask you for opinion:
Because Universe is expanding faster than the speed of light the Universe
is 156 billion light-years wide even though it is 13.7 billions years old:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040524.html

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