Shouldn’t it decrease gradually as we go up?
In: Physics
You seen the video of a bowling ball on fabric? They toss in a golf ball and it “orbits” until it falls to the center. Gravity bends space. Earth is the bowling ball. As you get further away from the bowling ball/earth the fabric/space is less curved/bent. Get far enough and the bending fades until you are actually weightless. Gravity is like an invisible dimension we can’t see but we can experience it.
There’s so many big objects in our solar system that if you tried to stay in one place with no force to keep you there I would assume you would eventually fall toward a big object. I’m not an authority on the subject by any means.
When I was flying we would put the plane into an aerodynamic stall on purpose. We would often drop a small object in the plane and it would appear to float or be weightless momentarily.
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