Comment on Falling

• Tja@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s the neat thing: it doesn’t

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• Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The bowling ball also pulls the earth towards itself. This amount is imperceptibly small but still there

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• hddsx@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m trying to understand as well.

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• dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because it, ever so slightly, pulls Earth towards it with it’s own, miniscule gravity.

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But that doesn’t make the bowling ball fall faster to a distant observer, just the earth fall twords the ball. To an observer on earth it would appear to fall faster though.

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, I think the meme is intended from the perspective of an observer on Earth.

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The ball’s acceleration is identical to the feather’s, but it’s fall ends up shorter.

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