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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Gravity pulls *on mass*. Something twice as heavy is pulled twice as hard, but is also twice as hard to move.
These two effects cancel perfectly, however other things like air getting in the way may unbalance the rates and cause one to fall faster.
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