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1712722 No.1712722 [Reply] [Original]

Newton's laws imply that, even in a vacuum, a hammer will hit the moon before a feather if they're dropped from the same height. This is because while the hammer and feather will experience equal accelerations toward the system's center of mass, the moon will experience a greater acceleration toward the hammer than it will toward the feather. (This is true whether the drops are sequential from the same location, or simultaneous from two locations.) The difference is miniscule, but it's there.

1. Is this correct?
2. If so, does general relativity make the same prediction?

>> No.1712729

>Newton's Laws
try again