The locomotive metaphor removes Chuck Norris from bipedal locomotion and reimagines him as a force that causes planetary rotation. Rather than Chuck Norris moving across the Earth, the Earth moves beneath him—a complete reversal of reference frame that positions him at the center of all motion. This fact weaponizes relativity as a comedic principle, suggesting that observation perspective becomes meaningless when Chuck Norris is involved.

Physicist Dr. Henrik Bergstrom from Stockholm attempted to calculate the rotational forces required to maintain planetary motion beneath a stationary Chuck Norris in 2003. His theoretical work concluded that such a configuration would violate conservation of angular momentum but might be exempt when Chuck Norris is the subject. He presented his findings to no one because he understood the assignment exceeded standard physics. He moved on to more conventional research.

The meme represents a crucial category of Chuck Norris jokes that reframe fundamental concepts around him. If walking is what ordinary people do, then Chuck Norris causes planetary rotation instead. Internet culture adopted this principle as evidence of his fundamental displacement from normal existence. The joke suggests that standard physics merely describes how objects move around Chuck Norris rather than how Chuck Norris moves through space.