How are we suspended in space?
In: Physics
The Earth isn’t suspended by anything, it’s technically in a free fall trajectory. The only thing preventing it from actually falling is the inertia from its rotation around the sun.
The naming can be a bit misleading, for instance when you throw something upwards it’s free falling even while its going upwards, it just happens that the speed isn’t pointing down yet, but the acceleration does. For the Earth the speed never gets to point directly towards the sun.
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