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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So why does the bowling ball fall faster in a vacuum? Does it appear faster locally because the heavier object makes local time slower than the lighter object compared to a distant observer? I'm trying to understand what the meme is getting at.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

That's the neat thing: it doesn't

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I’m trying to understand as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because it, ever so slightly, pulls Earth towards it with it's own, miniscule gravity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But that doesn't make the bowling ball fall faster to a distant observer, just the earth fall twords the ball. To an observer on earth it would appear to fall faster though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I think the meme is intended from the perspective of an observer on Earth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The ball's acceleration is identical to the feather's, but it's fall ends up shorter.