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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.

  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    “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?”

    • Fleur_@lemm.ee
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      23 hours ago

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

      • zqps@sh.itjust.works
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        21 hours ago

        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.

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          16 hours 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.