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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

fixed it sorry

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I meant cross-section area, not surface area. Sorry. Edited my comment above.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

If your bowling ball is twice as massive, the force between it and earth will be twice as strong. But the ball’s mass will also be twice as large, so the ball’s acceleration will remain the same. This is why g=9.81m/s^2 is the same for every object on earth.

But the earth’s acceleration would not remain the same. The force doubles, but the mass of earth remains constant, so the acceleration of earth doubles.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Here’s a problem for y’all: how heavy does an object have to be to fall 10% faster than g? Just give an approximate answer.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even in a perfect vacuum the bowling ball still falls faster. See my comment sibling to yours.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Yes, the earth accelerates toward the ball faster than it does toward the feather.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

A feather has smaller cross-section area than a bowling ball. But drag acceleration is proportional to the cross-section area divided by the mass (and this quantity is indeed smaller for the bowling ball).

Anyway the hypothetical scenario in this meme is a perfect vacuum. Check my other comments to see why it still works.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

When the earth pulls on an object with some F newtons of force, the object is also pulling on the earth with the same force. It’s just that the earth is so massive that its acceleration F/m will be tiny. Tiny is not zero though, so the earth is still accelerating toward the object. The heavier the object, the faster earth accelerates toward it.

Both the bowling ball and the feather accelerates toward earth at the same g=9.81m/s^2, but the earth accelerates toward the bowling ball faster than it does toward the feather.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

While it is true that space time dilation can cause red/blueshift, that is a distinct from the doppler effect which is the primary effect here.

(dilation plays only a small role: without time dilation our answer going from 700nm to 350nm would be 0.5c instead of the 0.6c calculated below)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One ton of TNT is 1E9 calories which is 4 gigajoules. So 0.2 petajoules should be only 50 kilotons of TNT?

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