| Re: Is there an absolute Principle?
Dear North:
I"m addressing the so called 'universal rate of descent', where Newton's laws hold that more massive objects should descend faster than less massive objects, due to the mutual impelling force between the more massive test object and the earth, and the less massive test object than the earth...
The fact that all objects descend at the same rate of descent (in the absence of air resistance) contradicts Newtonian law. The contradiction is said to be compensated for by the more massive test objects negative inertia preventing it from falling faster - what Einstein called 'an astonishing coincidence' and forthwith based his entire General Principle of Relativity on.
Best regards,
- RP
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