(August 3, 2015 at 12:22 pm)Aristocatt Wrote: I don't really understand how you came to the conclusion you came to.
A push is an action in which the body causing the pushing moves the object it is pushing away from it.
A pull is an action in which the body causing the pulling moves the object toward it.
Neither of those definitions has anything to do with acceleration, or with anything but the object causing the action and the object being acted on. That is, the comparison itself of how object A interacts with the earth to how object B interacts with the earth, tells us nothing about the nature of the force being applied to it. Only the description of the interaction between object A and the earth tells us the nature of the force being applied to object A from the Earth.
Wait, are you saying that physical relationships are relative?
Perish the thought!
