When in free fall are you actually weightless or do you just FEEL weightless? Is it the same thing if weight is relative?
In: Physics
‘Weight’ is the sensation of the ground *resisting* your free fall. When you feel weight, what you feel is the ground pushing up against your feet.
Remove the ground, and you no longer have a weight. Objects in free fall are truly weightless. They are not *massless*, which still affects things like inertia, but ‘feeling weightless’ and ‘being weightless’ are the same thing because weight is something you can only *feel* to begin with.
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