How do 2 objects of different weights fall and touch the ground at the same speed and time?

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Imagine 2 objects, 1 is a 50kg dumbbell and 1 is a 1g feather, how is it possible that they will fall and touch the ground at the same speed and time assuming they are dropped from the same height?

I must be understanding this completely wrong.

Edit: I definitely understood it completely wrong because I did not know it only applied to objects in space. That makes much more sense.

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I’m likely wrong on this, so someone please correct me, but:

Gravity isn’t a force and isn’t pulling. They are traveling straight through time and space. If those objects were floating in space, would you expect them to orbit differently given same starting variables?

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