I got nothing this morning, so you get a video…
I find it kinda funny that the BBC has to come to the US to do the article, when US media apparently can’t be bothered…
It does prove Galileo’s theory once and for all, and a lot more unequivocally than the little vacuum tube experiments we did in school. 🙂
Definately cool!
Imagine that!
The vacuum capacity of thousands of liberal craniums (a scientific measure of vacuum)!
I wonder if they could test space suits out in that near perfect vacuum?
Once again, despite the Beeb’s much-better record for accuracy in reporting, they’ve left out the “why” from their “what” explanation.
I believe I know why the objects appear to fall, without any external force applied to them, but my Einstein-fu is a bit fuzzy.
I would like to point out that while Einstein believed they were not falling at all, he made darned sure never to stand under a bowling ball in a similar experiment.
And you know how to maintain a sanitary environment in that chamber? You use a vacuum cleaner. (surprised you did not see that coming)
I would like to see the air resistance drop test repeated with the average politician and see if the mass of hot air slowed the fall during the first part.
Awesome sauce!
All- Good ones! 🙂
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Now that is very cool. I know I studied that in high school physics, but it’s still cool.
Thank you sir.
Safe travels,
Suz
That place is awesome, worked as a contractor there years ago when they had the Army in testing parachutes.
The one time I was restricted from the SPF was when they were using the site to film scenes from Avengers 😀
And, of course, the same experiment was done while Apollo 15 was on the moon.
https://youtu.be/5C5_dOEyAfk
This is one of the most poorly taught, poorly understood, basic principles of science, IMHO. I had quite the lengthy debate with my physics teacher concerning the nature of the acceleration due to gravity. I finally got a concession to my point, and gained a better understanding of the mechanics in the process. Double win, right? Still, this was a cool demo.