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| Eric Flesch to fortunati.luigi@gmail.com |
| Re: Gravity and free fall |
| 20 Mar 22 15:22:48 |
From: eric@flesch.org
On 4 Mar 2022 08:16:58 GMT, Luigi Fortunati
wrote:
>Why does the force of gravity disappear in the free-falling elevator and
>on Earth (which is also in free-fall) does it not disappear?
If the Earth were in the shape of a homogeneous hollow shell, then you
would indeed free-float within it.
[[Mod. note -- I think we also need the conditionn "... a homogenous
*spherical* hollow shell. -- jt]]
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