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To: krb

Nope. The popular genius has captured the truth very well with the expression “free fall”. Einstein promoted the idea to the fundamental Principle of Equivalence. Physically, there’s no difference between floating in intergalactic space, and dropping off a cliff. In each case there are no forces acting on you, and you are in “free fall”.


26 posted on 06/26/2009 9:14:28 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: dr_lew
Nope.

I promise she was experiencing 1 g of acceleration.

34 posted on 06/26/2009 9:28:25 PM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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To: dr_lew

No forces acting, not even gravity?


50 posted on 06/27/2009 4:12:15 PM PDT by DMZFrank
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