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The magnitude of the velocity vector is dependent on the frame of reference.

If you measure the same object's velocity from a spaceship traveling through the solar system, you'll get a different answer from what we measure from Earth.

That's why physics doesn't distinguish between acceleration and deceleration. What looks like acceleration in one frame looks like deceleration in a different frame.



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