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|    Sylvia Else to Luigi Fortunati    |
|    Re: The gelatin sphere    |
|    02 Jul 19 12:36:14    |
      From: sylvia@email.invalid              On 2/07/2019 5:48 pm, Luigi Fortunati wrote:              > So I explicitly ask: is the free fall in a gravitational field inertial       > or accelerated?       >              It is inertial, but the only part of your gelatin sphere that is in free       fall is the part at its centre of gravity.              If we put an observer inside the sphere, but in such a way that he was       not affected by it, then, except when he's not at the centre of gravity       of the sphere, he'd find himself accelerating relative to the gelatin       surrounding him.              Sylvia.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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