Reminds me of a short story I read where a scientist came up with a beam to eliminate all velocity.
He’d been harassed for years by another scientist that it was all nonsense so agreed to an experiment.
He set up a pool table with the beam pointing down and shot a ball into the beam. It created a perfect hole through the chest of his harasser...and the wall behind him... and the building next door....
The assumption was that by eliminating ALL velocity it also eliminated the velocity of earth, solar system, and the galaxy, etc..
Now the question at the end of the story was did he line the shot up with the other guy knowing it would do that or did he make a mistake in his calculations thinking it would only stop the relative motion compared to earth.
Good story
That’s a story by Isaac Asimov called “The Billiard Ball”.
One of my favorites................