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When you jump off a chair, the Earth's gravity pulls you down and you accel… | |
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@johncarlosbaez one thing I would note is that this depends on your choice of r… | |
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@Smoljaguar - In Newtonian mechanics an inertial reference frame is unaccelerat… | |
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@DoesntExist - Acceleration doesn't imply that the speed changes, only the… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @Smoljaguar \(9.8m/s^2 >> 0.03 m/s^2\) explains why we’… | |
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@johncarlosbaez So hmm, does that mean you can tell your latitude when you'… | |
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@penguin42 @johncarlosbaez Hard to do precisely, especially since things like a… | |
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@Diffgeometer1 @Smoljaguar - the upwards pull we feel on the Earth (or would fe… | |
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@dpnash @penguin42 - Let me try to calculate:Looking it up, I see the accelerat… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @penguin42 Could easily be me being wrong then. I remembered th… | |
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@dpnash @penguin42 - it looks like it's not dominant but still a close runn… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @Smoljaguar Thank you! That clarifies it completely. | |
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@johncarlosbaez @dpnash Hang on - can you explain why being further from the ce… | |
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@penguin42 @dpnash - Great question! There'sA) more mass between you and t… | |
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@Diffgeometer1 @johncarlosbaez @Smoljaguar An even easier explanation: The cent… | |
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@thebluewizard wrote:"Now, the force of pull by Earth, Sun, etc. pulls the… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @Diffgeometer1 @Smoljaguar OK, by "going (or trying to go)… | |
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@thebluewizard - I suggest reading the Wikipedia article on Newton's laws o… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @Diffgeometer1 @Smoljaguar I read that, then clicked on the lin… | |
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@thebluewizard - the term 'reaction' is archaic: modern physicists neve… | |
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@johncarlosbaez When you jump off a chair, the Earth's gravity pulls you do… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Just to be contrary: when you're sitting 'still' in… | |
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@RobJLow - yes, my post was Newtonian, and if you read all the comments you'… | |
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@johncarlosbaez Yes, I just took a look. It reminds me of my old suspicion tha… | |
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@johncarlosbaez @Diffgeometer1 @Smoljaguar I didn't know the term "rea… | |
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@thebluewizard - I haven't been talking AT ALL about quantum mechanics or g… |