Timeline for Don't heavier objects actually fall faster because they exert their own gravity?
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| Jun 21, 2020 at 22:27 | comment | added | Ravindra HV | @Yukterez - Thanks for the 'yukterez.net/org/1000.666.500.line.gif' It helps confirm my understanding ! I have posted on the topic too. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 18:26 | comment | added | Yukterez | Then you would't see the earth move since it is so much heavier than the hammer and the feather that its displacement until impact would be less than 1 pixel on the monitor | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 9:59 | comment | added | Vishnu | +1: If possible, could you please add another illustration which depicts the actual masses of the Earth, the hammer, and the feather? I think it will add more credit to your already excellent answer, and perhaps gives a sense of reality. | |
| Jun 9, 2019 at 19:53 | comment | added | Yukterez | It is, but that doesn't cancel out the effect that hammer and earth are accelerated stronger towards each other. | |
| Jun 9, 2019 at 18:34 | comment | added | Adrian Howard | but isn't the feather attracted to the mass of the earth + mass of the hammer when on opposite sides? | |
| Feb 23, 2019 at 23:15 | history | edited | Yukterez | CC BY-SA 4.0 | edited body |
| Feb 22, 2019 at 1:42 | history | edited | Yukterez | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 12 characters in body |
| Feb 15, 2019 at 1:20 | history | edited | Yukterez | CC BY-SA 4.0 | higher quality image |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 3:28 | comment | added | Yukterez | No, then the hammer would hit first since the planet moves in his direction and therefore away from the feather, see yukterez.net/org/1000.666.500.line.gif | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 2:43 | comment | added | JMac | Would this still apply if the hammer and feather were dropped on opposite sides? | |
| Feb 10, 2019 at 2:34 | history | edited | Yukterez | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 252 characters in body |
| Feb 9, 2018 at 20:27 | comment | added | Tom B. | Ha! This unambiguously explains everything! Everyone should look at this carefully. | |
| Apr 29, 2016 at 0:03 | history | answered | Yukterez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
