When in free fall are you actually weightless or do you just FEEL weightless? Is it the same thing if weight is relative?
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From a physics standpoint, as shown by Einstein, feeling weightless is the same as being weightless. So, if you have jumped out of an airplane, it is exactly the same as if you are drifting in space. It’s not intuitive, but if you feel weight at all it is because you are actually accelerating upwards against the inwards flow of spacetime, which from a physics standpoint is stationary. It’s complicated, and can’t really be ELI5’ed but it is true nonetheless.
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