1. The Train Itself
It is late on an exhausting school night. You wake up to find yourself sitting in the car of a sleek and modern express subway train. The train signs indicate that it is a south-bound train. Its intended destination is downtown: 14th Street. You are no longer at John Jay College's uptown address; you are somewhere between 59th Street and 14th Street.
Inside the train, everything looks symmetric (the same, in a certain way). That is, seats face north, south, east and west; windows are arranged identically on all walls; neither the floor nor the ceiling is marked by any distinguishing features. You neither feel nor hear anything: no bumps, no lurches, no turns. None of your senses experience anything to indicate instability nor change. You do recognize that the train design seems quite technologically up-to-date.
The question is: Are you moving?
Some time later, you look through an arbitrary window and see a slew of tiny white lights rushing by. All the lights appear to move as one group. That is, they all appear to move at one speed and in one direction. You are just looking out the window for the first time, so you do know when, if ever, the lights had begun to behave in this manner.
2A) Draw a neat and clear sketch of what you see through the window.
2B) At this moment, are you moving?
a. Yes.
b. No.
c. Both yes and no.
d. Neither yes nor no.
e. Not enough information to choose any of the above.