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What level of the atmosphere does lightning originate? How about a cable tethered between a grounding station and a high altitude balloon? Reverse the way a normal high voltage transformer works (tesla type stuff) to take in a high voltage static charge and 'convert'* it to usuable electricity? *I don't understand enough about static electricity to be able to explain how to do this.

Yes, this is what I was trying to figure out. Truely zero velocity on a universal scale.

Well, if you went in any direction from that point, time would slow relative to that point. I guess I'm using time dilation as the measurement? This would only work if you can communicate instantaniously with the reference point (entaglement). It's the only way I can see of being able to share information between reference frames without distortion. I guess it's like being in deep space and moving off in a direction, how do you work out your velocity? (do you use the stars as a reference, or calc it based on accel time, etc?) I'm probably barking up the wrong tree, aren't I? As I said, I haven't done anything above our college (same as american high school) level physics, I've just read some stuff and thought about this. Thanks for your input guys and not making me feel like a complete idiot

I don't understand what you mean. As I said, I haven't done a lot of physics. Please explain so I can understand (I'm here to learn).

I thought's were along the line that if the start point is already moving (relative to absolute rest) then sending probes in different directions at speed would alter (speed up or slow down) time relative to the start point. Meaning if the start point is moving at 25,000km/s and the probe is sent out at 50,000km/s in all directions, then adding the velocities would give you the direction as some of the velocities would be negative because the probe is traveling err, toward? absolute rest so time would speed up (relative to the start point)

Probably not the best use of english, but I couldn't figure out how to describe it better. Now, my idea goes like this (please don't be critical, I haven't done much physics and this is something I sort of just came up with): Everything in the universe is moving relative to some stationary point. This point I will call absolutly stationary. There is probably no reason to find the direction and velocity (relative to say, earth) but would this work? Take a particle and entangle it with another, put it in a spaceship (or whatever) send it off in a direction at a set velocity. Do this thousands of times in many directions around a sphere. After a period of time (from the start point) use the entangled particle (don't know how yet) to transmit the time from each of the thousand particles that have been sent away. Whichever particle that reads the least amount of time passing will be the correct direction. Now do the same experiment, but send some of the particles in the direction found above, another lot in the opposite direction (or would they all just be sent in the one direction?) this time they are sent with different velocites. Now with the time data that is sent back there should be 1 time that is in the middle. It's in my head, but I can't explain it better than that for the moment. This would give a velocity and direction (relative to everthing) that is 'stationary' Would this work, or am I just completely wrong?