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ur dada so buff he falls significantly faster than g (mander.xyz)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The bowling ball isn’t falling to the earth faster. The higher perceived acceleration is due to the earth falling toward the bowling ball.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

“In our limited language that tries to describe reality and does so very poorly, how would you describe this situation that would literally never happen?”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure bowling balls and feathers fall all the time

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think they mean the vacuum part.

To which I'd add that we had astronauts perform this experimentally on the surface of the moon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Also, I've seen a video of an experiment done in a vacuum chamber. (Although they kind of botched the point of the video by showing lots of slow-mo and junk like that.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

True fair enough, but since I'm here, being an internet clown, I might as well double down...

Obviously heavy and light objects never experience gravitational attraction in a vacuum throughout the vastness of the universe. Clearly F = G(m1m2)/R^2 only applies to objects in earths atmosphere.