From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:   
   >In article ,   
   >ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:   
   >>If you put the same two test bodies into an elevator that is   
   >>falling freely, one on the floor of the elevator and the   
   >>other one into the air one meter above the first one,   
   >>their distance will /not/ decrease because the force of the   
   >>Earth's surface and thus the squeezing force is missing here.   
   >Minor nitpick (the summary is otherwise excellent): in practice, the   
   >distance between the two test bodies in an elevator will INCREASE   
      
     Yes, but I wrote "not decrease", which includes "increase".   
      
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