[RipSawyer]

Okay, I'm a little slow but I finally figured it out. If I were standing in a six inch deep hole just big enough for my two feet and I pitched forward onto my face my six feet and four inches of height have nothing to do with anything therefore I would be said to have levitated six inches since my body would come to rest at a height six inches above where I was standing. I am sorry it took me so long to understand. Just imagine, for all my life I have been operating under the assumption that that would be called "falling down".

[flyervet]

I wouldn't call you slow. Gullible maybe, but not slow. Anyway, in such a unique hypothetical situation, most folks would just use the term "falling". Regardless, in such an instance your hypothetical person would stand a very good chance of breaking an ankle, a leg, a wrist, possibly even a hip or his pelvis, but he would not become "busted open like a ripe watermelon and his guts spilled out".