Quote:
Originally Posted by RascalPuff  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 |
RP
you know I have still a problem with this.
say at fifty thousand feet I let go a 50lb ball and at the same instant I let go a 1lb ball both with exactly the same dimensions( the size of both balls being exactly the same).
I still say the 50lb ball will hit the Earth sooner than the 1lb ball.
if gravity is bassed on mass then the 50lb ball will hit the Earth before the 1lb ball.