On a walk in Mayapur on April 3,1975, devotees said that scientists considered that everything, even inert matter, was in motion, mainly by virtue of atoms and their charged particles. They said that even within the earth there was a great deal of unseen motion. Srila Prabhupada countered by saying the he was a “layman” and couldn’t see motion and that inanimate objects didn’t seem to move from one place to another overnight.