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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.

  • UltraHamster64@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    No, it isn’t. Because earth wouldn’t fall towards the ball. Why?

    Go to your frige right now and try to push it with one finger. It doesn’t move does it? You may say “That’s because of static friction!” And you would be correct. The force of static friction. Because the object moves in the direction of vector sum of all forces.

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    (In the example with fridge the static friction force cancels all other forces up to certain value and after that - motion)

    And adding microscopic attraction force towards the ball absolutely doesn’t change the full vector sum of forces, that are applied to Earth constantly (which is probably pointed towards the sun).