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Mainstream F=ma And The Equivalence Principle
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It was my favourite equation from school. It made sense; you could push something heavy and it would take a lot of force and if you pushed something light it would accelerate quickly. It was common sense, f=ma; you knew it made sense. But how can this feeling of certainty be equivalent to the feeling of falling bodies? The thought of a light object falling at the same rate as a lead weight doesn't instantly appeal to the psyche. It's not something that feels intuitively right. It
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the same feeling of certainty that the moving force brings. The force of my hand can be seen to apply to all the particles of a solid object. If gravity is actually due to particles, then it is not necessarily the same case with falling bodies. We
can't see
the interactions taking place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle
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I should try to read around a bit more and use your intuition a bit less. Intuition is a very suspect reason for deriving Physical Laws.
It's pretty intuitive to think that everything slows down. Newton put us right on that one.
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You might not be feeling it but I certainly am. [
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I'm still rarin' to go.
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