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Could you feel your weight falling through the a tube drilled through the center of the earth?
Suppose you drill a hole through the center of the earth (assume the earth is uniform and no air resistance) and you jump in. Would you be "weightless" throughout the entire fall?
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Stationary on a geodesic
If the Earth were not spinning or orbiting the Sun would we still feel gravity?
I ask because it seems to me that in that case we would not be accelerating and we would still be standing on a geodesic ...
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Equivalence Principle - mass on table example [duplicate]
I hope this question won't be ill received.
I have a rather simple question in physics.
I never got a satisfying answer to the following question:
If a man holds a massive body in the air such that it ...
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