Comment on Falling

brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But they are being dropped at the same time for dramatic effect, so the earth will also be accelerating towards the feather at bowling ball speeds because the feather is next to the bowling ball, therefore they still land at the same time.

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  • Dwomen@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s only be true if the feather was in the same position as the ball. Otherwise, the earth is moving ever so slightly more towards the ball.

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    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You are forgetting the sun. The earth turns in the direction of sun ever so slightly so if you align the feather next to the ball in the side of the sun, then probably the feather falls faster

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    • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So, what you’re saying is, to do this experiment correctly, we have to stop the earth from moving. . I’m keen.

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      • clickyello@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        🎵 I’ll stop the world and melt with you 🎵

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  • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, because the earth is accelerating towards the bowling ball and the feather is next to the bowling ball, the force vector is (ever so slightly) greater towards the bowling ball than the feather, thus the bowling ball drops faster

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    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I thought about it and I guess I’m wrong. I thought that maybe the ball still wouldn’t be faster if there was a perfectly flat surface for both objects to land on, but I imagined how it would be if the bowling ball and feather were actually very far apart, and of course they wouldn’t be travelling perpendicular to the platform, and the path of the feather would follow more of a curve. So a slight distance would be the same thing just less.

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• iz_ok@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can someone explain how the Earth accelerates towards an object? Is this just because objects with mass attract things?

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  • candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You got it.

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  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes. And that force is proportional to acceleration so it accelerates earth

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  • kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    In the same way that earth has gravity that attracts objects, the objects have gravity that attracts earth. See also Newton’s third law, also known as “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” - for the earth to attract something, the earth also has to be attracted with the same force. It’s just that the earth has a lot more mass, so the force barely accelerates it.

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  • Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Being attracted to something and actually being moved by it are different things.

    This is all idiotic akshuallee technikali

    And it’s stupid.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They are being moved, it is just imperceptible to the human eye.

      It is all a matter on how precise you want to be

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• Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thank you.

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