Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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?”
Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure bowling balls and feathers fall all the time
zqps@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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.
Fleur_@lemm.ee 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.
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 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.)