(February 6, 2009 at 9:32 am)Sam Wrote: I don't think you'd be weightless, Since gravity is attraction between objects with Mass, you would still be affected by the gravity of everything around you ...But in such a way that you'd be pulled equally in all directions: you'd be weightless because there'd be no net force.
(February 6, 2009 at 9:32 am)Sam Wrote: slightly different from being in space where weightlessness is caused by a kind of equilibrium between momentum and gravitational pull ... I think.Weightlessness in space is caused by a near absence of gravity: you're so far from the Earth (and any other large mass) that the net gravitational field at your position is near zero.
Momentum has nothing to do with it :p
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A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone. - Charles Darwin
