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The bowling ball isn’t falling to the earth faster. The higher perceived acceleration is due to the earth falling toward the bowling ball.

  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Uh… That’s not how that works. The distance between two objects changes with acceleration a1-a2 where object 1 moves with acceleration a1 and object 2 a2 (numbers interchangeable). In the bowling ball’s case a2 is the same but a1 is bigger in the negative direction so the result is that the bowling ball falls faster.