| Inert & Heavy Mass (GR) -
06-29-2007, 09:05 PM
Why are inert (inertial) and heavy (gravitational) mass values, identical?
Why is it that, in the absence of air resistance and near the earth's surface, when objects of widely varying mass value are released from the same height at the same time, they descend at exactly the same rate of acceleration and strike the earth at the same time?
Regards,
- RP
(George Berkeley, 1710) ... lay the beginning in a distinct explication of what is meant by thing, reality, existence: for in vain shall we dispute concerning the real existence of things, or pretend to any knowledge thereof, so long as we have not fixed the meaning of those words. "All things come out of the one and the one out of all things." - Heraclitus "Reality is an illusion - albeit a persistent one." - Einstein "Particles give me a headache." - Ibid |