eli5 how does jumping before an elevator hits the ground not save your life?
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To make it more obvious than the other answers, let’s rotate everything sideways.
Instead of falling down a shaft at 50mph, imagine you’re in the back of a truck driving 50mph. Straight towards a wall of rock. At the last second before impact, you jump away from the rock wall.
What do you think will happen?
And that’s assuming you time things right, because if you jump late you’ll never jump, and if you jump early you’ll be accelerating towards the wall faster than the vehicle at the point of impact due to gravitational acceleration.
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