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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This is the cutting-edge of my understanding so if I'm wrong somebody call me out, but I think because gravity is warping space-time and not actually pulling anything, we wouldn't feel an inertia change. Our inertia would be maintained, but the space-time we're going through would suddenly be shaped different, so we'd follow a new path

[–] mipadaitu 4 points 6 days ago

The part you're missing is that earth isn't a point in space. That's why there's tides caused by the sun (which are different than tides caused by the moon)

A person wouldn't feel the difference, but the tides would slosh back when the solar gravity stops effecting them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So would all the other planets, so there'd be a non-zero chance we'd smack into one of them. Most likely though we'd become a very, very cold rogue planet.

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

How do you figure? Space is fucking huge. I don't see how any planets could collide.