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Re: is free-fall an inertial frame?

At 01:20 AM 8/18/99 -0400, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:


let me try to quote a
notion that keeps revolving in my head and drives me crazy: "when I'm
in free-fall, I can't feel that it is gravity causing it;


at the risk of over-simplifying, perhaps if you were not so familiar with
earth's gravity it would not seem so transparent? if you were originally
from the moon, then would earth's gravity seem more evident? or if you
were on a friendly planet the mass of jupiter, wouldn't gravity then seem
easier to recognize?


Dr. Lois Breur Krause
Department of Geological Sciences
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Clemson University
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