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Tap for spoilerThe bowling ball isn’t falling to the earth faster. The higher perceived acceleration is due to the earth falling toward the bowling ball.

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[-] Fleur_@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure bowling balls and feathers fall all the time

[-] zqps@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 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 points 4 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 points 4 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.)

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